What I have to eat living 100% food self-sufficient | Episode 14
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Episode 14: As Glastonbury celebrates a pagan festival Max finally manages to get his wheat sown and takes stock of what there is to eat on his smallholding.
About This Series
Formerly known as 'No Milk Today', this channel is dedicated to a total food self-sufficiency project. Max aims to spend a year from September 2022 to September 2023 only eating and drinking food produced on his small farm in the South West of England - and only allowing himself two imports - salt and tap water.
This series was adapted for BBC Radio 4, ‘Growing Solo’, available from April 22nd 2024
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Produced by Tessa Browne
About Max
Max Cotton is a British television journalist who has worked as a reporter at BBC News in Westminster since 1995. In 2012 he left the world of politics to spend more time on his smallholding in Glastonbury but still occasionally writes and presents news and documentaries on Radio 4. He is best known for his work on BBC1’s Politics Show between 2003 and 2012.
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Music performed by Harry Cotton
love your series - full of practical advice, food wisdom, and poetry - inspirational!!!
This was like watching a Spring Poem! Stunningly filmed. Your finest yet! Thank you ! Hxx
We should always be grateful we have loads of food to eat. I would love to do an experiment like this. I have kids though so, it would be harder.
I started out in a small way years ago. The thing about leaving it until the kids are big is that you don’t have so much energy! All the best Max
It's all looking great Max. Vitamin C - Cider? Love the guitar background btw.
The Guitar is Harry. he’s a talent. He’ll be thrilled
Lovely! It's true what you say. The things I'm mot proud of here are the trees I've planted and continued to plant, 50m of hedging 9 years ago now looks great, and another 100m 3 years ago is coming on strong, not to mention all the fruit trees.
Your nettle tea has vitamin C in I'm sure!
I’m not very good at the science. I hadn’t thought that the nettle tea would be vit c. Your place is a great totem for gardening like you’ll live forever Kev. hope all’s well. Max
What an awesome video to stumble onto. Thanks much for sharing!
It’s a pleasure. thanks for taking the time to watch. Max
What a change in your garden, everything looking so green and lush with loads of potential. We are still so far behind here but the weather is finally starting to warm up a bit so hoping my later than usual sowings will catch up. Have you ever thought of rose hips to supplement your vitamin C, l make a cordial of them every winter and drink it in hot water it's amazing the difference it makes to how l am feeling. Good luck through the rest of the hungry gap although you look to have it nailed !
Thanks so much for your support. Means a lot. gotta do more with rosehips next year- Max
Looking forward to seeing everything grow now over spring and summer! Your salad looks delicious and nutritious too with egg and cheese. I'm really enjoying watching your journey and it's very inspiring!
Thanks Naomi.
I can hear the change of attitude in your voice! Spring has sprung and all's right with your world. So good to see the new crops developing, and plans being made to foil those wheat wrecking badgers.
I sowed 100 broad been seeds last year, which produced a bumper crop. I allow them to get as big as possible so each one is a hearty mouthful. Lots to eat fresh, and literally buckets to preserve. When I cut them down in summer, they quickly sent up more stalks and produced more pods.
Having no electricity, I pressure canned them and they surprisingly turned from green to dark red. 3 good serves per jar, of which I got about 40. These are a fantastically nutritious addition to soups and casseroles, or a side vegetable. A shelf full of these is very comforting, heading into winter. The pressure canner was a wonderful investment.
Alas, I didn't grow Czar runner beans or borlottis as I had intended, but those are definitely on next season's plan for my newly established no dig garden. Growing abundant quantities of quality protein crops is essential for food self sufficiency. Nobody can live on garlic and lettuce, wonderful as they are.
Your wheat looks brilliant! Did you harrow the seed in?
You are always full of helpful advice Ruby. Thank you. It means a lot. Really. Harrowed in the wheat with an old set of chain harrows Tommy lent me pulled by my ride on. Go well. Max
What a beautiful spring you are having, Max. Great to see the delicious food you are currently enjoying. We have been making raw saurkraut for some time now, and it has a high vit C content. We've been using mostly cabbage, sometimes adding more or less apples, carrots and/or beets. Thanks again for your inspiring videos!
Gosh - well thank you. I’m always. I’m always forgetting how much Vit C there is in greens. Max
Loving your videos Max. We are pretty much self sufficient in veg here but don't grow any grains yet (my test bed of rye is looking really promising though).
There's a fair amount of vitamin C in salad leaves, kale, purple sprouting broccoli etc. Wild garlic is very high too ( I know you have a no foraging rule but maybe you should encourage it onto your property for next year). You don't seem to have made any sauerkraut - this also retains vit C as not heated and is a really good way of storing autumn abundance. I love it so much I even make it at this time of year with spring cabbage, spring onions cauliflower stalks and radish ( and homegrown coriander seeds when I have them)
Another tip for next year are 'Swift' potatoes - they are the quickest first earlies I know of and give a good crop in early may ( April in last year's mild winter). I plant them in the polytunnel in February and cover them with sheep's wool and make a cloche over them with an old gazebo panel when nights are very cold.
You see I need you guys to give me all the gen. I have seen Swift advertised in the catalogues. Will try them next time. Thanks for your message. Max
amazing how clever are you????!!!! would you like some seeds De Evans Hadzor
Worcestershire
He looks like granpa MAX