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In Season August

Cooking and eating locally (UK) produced food with the seasons is the best way to get fresh food and cut down on the air miles your food travels. Not only does in season, local food taste better, but it is more affordable as your not paying for importing the food from abroad. Have a look around your local market, local produce is always in abundance and it's as fresh as can be. Local hedgerows hold a rich bounty of wild foods if you know what you are looking for, a stroll in the woods could turn out to be a food foragers feast.

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Grow your Own Food

Grow Your Own Food Introduction

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Food For Free Introduction

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Grow your own food

An Introduction to Growing your own food - be it in pots on a window sill or on a bustling allotment. Growing your own food could be the most rewarding and nutritional thing you can do.

Growing your own food can be enormously rewarding especially by mid summer when your hard work from spring rewards you with lots of tasty fruit and vegetables and crisp salad treats, no matter what space you have there's always room for a few pots for salad greens of a few hanging baskets of tomato plants.

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Real Ale

With Real Ale Festivals held in abundant regularity around the UK, I would be surprised to hear of someone who didn't know anything about Real Ale, but that doesn't mean everyone knows the difference between Real Ale and any other pub pint.

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