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Have your cake and veg it
Carrot cake is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to baking with vegetables, try parsnips, chickpeas and courgettes and expand your veg cake repertoire.
By Gwen Young - 16th May 2019
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How to eat rhubarb
Rhubarb's sharp, fruity flavour makes for some intriguing savoury pairings. If you want to expand your rhubarb repertoire here are a few ideas to get you started.
By Becky Marshall - 24th April 2019
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Five asparagus recipes to enjoy this spring
Tender, sweet and delicate – the flavour of asparagus just can’t be beaten. For an organic farmer though, asparagus is the ultimate challenge with weeds being the major problem.
By Kirsty Hale - 17th April 2019
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Best recipes for an Easter feast
At the time of writing, Spring is gently arriving at the Riverford farm in Devon. Trees are full with the trill of nest-building birds and our farmers are hard at work planting lettuces in the field…
By Riverford - 9th April 2019
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How Instagram changed the way we eat
The picture perfect social media platform has changed the way we see food, but at what price, asks Emily Muddeman.
By Emily Muddeman - 3rd April 2019
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Go crazy for caulis
If you are haunted by memories of slightly grey, over-steamed cauliflower, these recipes may give you a whole new appreciation of this versatile veg.
By Becky Marshall - 21st March 2019
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Top five wild garlic recipes
Every year we forage wild garlic from the woods around our Devon farm. The pungent leaves add a welcome dash of green and liven up all our plates during The Hungry Gap when other crops can be sparse.
By Kirsty Hale - 5th March 2019
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Live life on the veg this Pancake Day
Although the classic lemon and sugar combo takes a lot of beating, we think these savoury pancakes are pretty good contenders.
By Kirsty Hale - 27th February 2019
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Top five winter salads
When you focus less on what you think a salad should be made of and expand your veg horizons, some very exciting things can happen on your plate.
By Becky Marshall - 19th February 2019
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Ellis: The new taboo?
As the meat versus plant-based debate hots up, Ellis imagines a time in the future where perhaps smoking isn't the only social exclusion...
By Ellis - 24th May 2019
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Feeling the pulse
Hodmedod's is pioneering the reintroduction of age-old British pulses like carlin peas and fava beans back into our kitchens and onto our farms. Wicked Leeks caught up with co-founder Josiah Meldrum…
By Nina Pullman - 24th May 2019
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A life devoted to cucumbers or chaos
Having walked the fields and seen the best crops we have grown in our ten years here, my contentment almost matches the smug cacophony of croaking frogs lazing in the water.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 24th May 2019
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