The madness has been slowly increasing!!
I’ve been attempting food photography for the website, social media and Instagram. Using inspiration from Jaimie Oliver and David Loftus. Managed to get a few lovely shots that I’m proud of. Just need to keep practising and practising. As soon as dad is out of the house, the spices and camera come out!
We have started planning a little ahead now. Managed to get a stall space at Dartmouth Food Festival on the 21st/22nd/23rd October and Powderham Festival on the 1st and 2nd October. Our first two festivals, which is a little scary. Need to find someone to help as Molly will be at Uni and I’ll be in Brighton.
Have written around ten other food and music festivals that sound perfect for us. So when the time is right we’ll fill in the applications.
We also have a few new dishes we want to try out – idli, vadda and chutney and kothu roti. I’ll try and get dad to try out the new 50 idli dish steamer next week!! We’ll see.
As for the farm side, we are going sheep shopping for an additional 30 sheep in September. Purebred Llanwenog sheep from a nearby farm in Devon. Just hunting for a ram and then we can tup them in November for lambs April next year!!
The barn will hopefully go up by the end of the year and we are planning to try out our hands on a bit of hugelkultur!
Pretty mad right?! Well we’ve had a few ideas from my sister’s friend in the States who is interested in permaculture, and gave us a few alternative ideas to have a mini veg patch to grow potatoes and onions for the markets.
Apparently Hugelkultur is no more that no-dig raised beds but the impact is greater.
“They hold moisture, build fertility, maximise surface volume and are great spaces for growing fruit, vegetables and herbs. Simply mound logs, branches, leaves, grass clippings, straw, cardboard, petroleum-free newspaper, manure, compost or whatever other biomass you have available, top with soil and plant your veggies.” –https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/many-benefits-hugelkultur
We’ll start small and see what happens. The aim of this is to try and grow most of our produce on our land.
The Devon Dusters 
Goregous photos! You’re very talented. Food photography is very difficult I find, nature I find easier. But food…so tough. Good work!
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Thank you so much!! Yeah I find food photography hard, trying to make the food appealing to eat!! I do tend to take lots of nature pics in my personal time normally, but I thought I might help my dad out a bit by taking pics of Indian spices and food. Thanks again!
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Love these photos!!
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