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The Kitchen Garden

Factual: Food & Drink

Factual: Homes & Gardens: Gardens

Pennie Latin

Celebrating the sheer joy of growing and cooking your own fruits, herbs and vegetables.

The Kitchen Garden team celebrate the joy of growing and cooking your own fruits, herbs and vegetables.

The Kitchen Garden: 23/07/2015

23/07/2015

BBC Radio Scotland - The Kitchen Garden, 23/07/2015

Pennie Latin visits Culross Palace Garden in Fife to find out about 17th-century food.

Pennie Latin visits Culross Palace Garden in Fife to find out what people were growing, cooking and eating in the 17th century.

Pennie Latin travels back in time to the 17th century this week on a sojourn to Culross Palace Garden in Fife. It's time to relax and enjoy this beautiful, sensory experience; take a walk along the shell paths, smell the apothecary roses and listen to the tweeting birds and cockerels crowing. 
Gardener Mark Jeffery gives Pennie a tour of the garden where they encounter the medicinal plants and the old planting styles, described by Mark as a 'hangover from monastic times'. Dan Holland gets a tour of the old house from Manager Paul Foley, whilst Fife chef Christopher Trotter excitedly gathers ingredients for lunch like a kid in a sweet shop. Christopher cooks up a mackerel dish in the gardens whilst Pennie has a rummage in the dressing up box. Also, Dan travels east to the coastal town of Pittenweem where Georgina Stutchfield is practicing Permaculture in her small back garden.

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