by Paul Askew
6. May 2009 04:31
What’s in the fields and what’s in the trees and what is coming out of the ground now that’s exciting!
Asparagus season has arrived at Clarmont farm - in my view a great local producer of asparagus - And it’s an absolute pleasure to be working again with this fantastic ingredient. The arrival in the TLCW kitchen heralds the change in menus towards spring and summer and the process of removing the winter influences to make way for the lighter more subtle dishes of spring and summer.
I was visiting last week to see the new growth and saw that the asparagus also coincided with the delivery of the ‘strawberry bees’, literally boxes of bees which are let loose to pollinate every flower of every plant all spring and summer long. Apparently this (exhaustive) natural lovefest ensures the quality and shape of the many fruits on the farm, from strawberrys, to gooseberrys.