Food

Food

Green eating guide

You want to source local and organic food producers in the UK, but small shops and delivery companies aren�t going to flood you with advertising. We have just the guide to get you started.…

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Food

Yumm, Roadkill

Nothing is too odd or disgusting for Fergus Drennan, from nettles to roadkill. He�s had his share of interesting experiences and speaks knowledgeably about badger dishes: �There�s no rhyme or reason to badger. Sometimes it tastes really gamey and uriney, even if it�s fresh. It can be excellent though.�

�I used badger intestines once to make some chipolatas,� continues Fergus cheerily.MORE…

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Events

Educate your Barbeque

Yarrow in her kitchen
ITV�s Yarrow and her composter

The proportion claiming to have adopted an eco-lifestyle has reached 15% according to a poll for ITV’s This Morning, which regularly features issues like disposable nappies and organic cooking.
Over the summer the show has appointed green goddess Joanna Yarrow to present items on greening the home and garden. Her first item included advice on how to Barbeque in an ecologically sound manner.

Don’t use imported charcoal she told me in the kitchen of her house in North London. It’s likely to be from non-renewable rain forest, and it’s been doctored to make it heavier because it is sold by weight.

She popped some scraps into her elegant Japanese mini-composter as we talked. The additives in imported charcoal also make it more likely to need petrochemical firelighters instead of paper and kindling said Yarrow, an eco-consultant helping businesses go green.…

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Sites to help eat cheap

cheap food, organic food, food, grow food, grow your own food, organic gardening, organic web sites, Trees for Life, Green thumb, ecoroof,…

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Energy

World’s best solar cookers

Solar Cooker Safari
Let’s go Cookin now

We asked leading expert on Solar Cookers, Dr. Ashok Kundapur, for his opinion on which is the best, and which is the cheapest acceptable Solar Cooker. Dr Kandapur has listed over 60 main types of solar cookers and more than 100 variations of them in his site https://solcooker.tripod.com. He believes the best solar cooker is yet to come, and when it comes, it will allow cooking inside the kitchen instead of directly under the sun’s rays, and also allow cooking at night.

As of today, says Dr Kundapar, “a Cooker which comes close to the ambitious model described above is the one designed by Scheffler of Germany. The Scheffler Cooker, it is a shallow parabolic reflector with a long focus.
” Thus the sun rays could be directed into the kitchen where the cooking can be done. When the cooking is completed, the focused sun rays could be used to store the heat into a metal block. The Cooker is available in large size too and world over several Hostels and big establishments are using such Scheffler cooker. A domestic model with 2 m dia costs about Rs. 8,500 in India, a price at which it is considered to be a bit costly. 0962906921-01-_scmzzzzzzz_-1207365Cooking With the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers – Buy it from Amazon

Solar Box Cookers are very popular in India, they are also known as Gosh Type Cookers.…

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