How to preserve your own food!
English Country Life
- Organisation:
- English Country Life
- Regions:
- Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £120 plus 45p per mile if more than 25 miles
- Category:
- Hobbies
- Updated:
- 22nd April 2024
- Tagged:
- Cooking | Gardening | Kitchen | Self Sufficiency
A fun topic for gardeners, cooks, the ecologically conscious or anyone who wants to make the worlds best bacon!
Hugh and Fiona not only grow and produce their own food but also practice all manner of food preserving techniques ancient, modern, simple and complex. The talk covers a huge variety of ways to preserve food Including;
Drying, (from simple drying of herbs to making dried fruits and even jerky)
Canning & Bottling (from bottling of tomatoes to canning your own soups and stews)
Pickling (not just onions and yes, we make our own vinegar)
Clamping (earth and sand clamps - just like the Victorians used)
Lactic Fermentation (more than just sauerkraut - make your own tabasco sauce)
Curing and smoking meat (seriously home smoked, dry cure bacon is amazing)
...and much more! Whether you are planning to build a cabin in the wilderness or just make fantastic pickles for gifts we promise that this talk has it all.
Views: 226 | Enquiries: 0About English Country Life
We are Hugh and Fiona - the modern “Tom and Barbara” and live “The Good Life” in Lincolnshire.
We grow our own fruit and vegetables, rear chickens, cook on wood and even making our own soap!
We are passionate about self-sufficiency and offer a range of light-hearted and engaging talks on the subject including an introduction to the topic with a little bit of everything and more in depth talks on subjects such as gardening, chicken keeping and food preserving – but always with the emphasis on fun!
To help spread the word on self-sufficiency, we write regular columns for magazines such as Country Smallholder and Practical Poultry and have a strong online presence including;
• A successful YouTube channel with 60k+ subscribers (https://www.youtube.com/englishcountrylife)
• A large social media following including Instagram with 155k+ followers across 2 accounts (https://www.instagram.com/engcountrylife & https://www.instagram.com/theflooflady/)
We put great energy into delivering talks in an engaging and entertaining way. We love to bring along fascinating plants, interesting equipment and even unusual foods for people to experience. We are conversational in our style, bringing our audiences along with us with excellent feedback from our previous engagements. As we have built a name digitally, we can both deliver talks in person using our own equipment, or virtually using Google Meets
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