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Welcome to City Cottage
From deep in Lancashire we put on courses, make films and online materials to help you live the Good Life. Our magazine now has 22,000 readers all over the world.
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City Cottage Courses
Our courses are run at locations all around the UK, in farms, at institutiuons like the Women's Institute, and also at the Cow Shed, now converted into a garden centre in Ramsbottom, Lancashire.
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Grow your Own
Our growing pages give you guidelines of how to grow food for your kitchen, regardless of how much land you have. You can grow something, even if you live in the inner city.
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Instructional films
Our instructional videos suppliment the magazine so you can not only read how to do it, but you can also see it too.
Look out for our new series on the internet and Sky TV
From the magazine
Is time running out?
Are we falling into a serious trap, buying food from all around the world? Foo0d Poverty in the UK is at amn all time high!
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Making wonderfully cheap bread is so easy.
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Making an easy garden seat for summer.
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Make do and Mend - turning trousers into a skirt.
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Make Blue Stilton cheese in the kitchen
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In the garden
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Making Compost
Composting is simple, really. You pile up plant material until it rots down - but as usual there is much more to it than that!
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Growing Beans/a>
Beans are much more than a staple, they’re tasty too! Relatively easy to grow, you can eat them raw, salted, cooked, or my favourite way - home made baked beans!
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Double Digging
Get your beds cleared and treated as soon as they are free, then you have the whole winter to allow the weather to do its stuff on the soil, breaking it down and increasing fertility.
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Growing Asparagus
Asparagus will grow in a light soil, and this is the favourite medium for growing because the spears do not get all muddy when harvesting. However, it will grow in heavier soils too.
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Sweet potatoes
Actually not potatoes, they are Impoema - more related to wallflowers. These plants are very rich in Vitamin C and well worth growing, being fantastic in a roast!
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Growing Cabbages
GROW CABBAGES ALL THE YEAR ROUND - YOU WILL NEVER BE OUT OF FOOD.Really healthy and excellent for good skin and a healthy immune system
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Meatloaf made at home
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Shortbread is the best of treats
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Asparagus soup
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Easy home made bacon
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Sausage - general
March 25, 2012Chorizo
March 22, 2012Cottage Cheese
March 05, 2012Mascarpone
March 05, 2012Home cured bacon
March 05, 2012Home made hams
March 05, 2012