Baking Scones with Helen Rebanks | Q&A at Farming for the Future

Описание: Helen Rebanks, author of The Farmer’s Wife: My Life in Days, talks about the importance of hospitality and bringing children back into the kitchen, answers questions about food and farming, reads an excerpt from her new book, and bakes English scones.

Here are the questions:

11:06 Could you talk about soil?
12:32 What’s important for the soil in a vegetable garden?
07:53 Do you put the jam or the butter on the scone first?
13:03 My question is about lawns. If you don’t mow your lawns and you don’t have animals, will the roots grow to the depth that the grass is tall?
13:41 Do you have ticks in Cumbria?
14:20 In your community in England where maybe people have meetings for school or the library or church or whatever – I’m finding in our area of the United States, the meetings are always called right at the dinner time.
16:59 What kind of fruit did you use?
17:15 Do you use baking powder?
17:54 What’s the best way to find your recipes?
18:26 What’s a sultana?
19:30 How much of the food your family eats comes from your farm?
22:02 I’m curious about the consistency. I have a friend who always explains the consistency of her baking based on something familiar. So I’m wondering, is this like very mixed, and like clay?
23:15 You mentioned that eventually you guys have moved the sheep to another part of the land and started to suddenly have different herbs and plants, right? Do you use anything specific in your baking or cooking?
24:09 Do you milk any of your cows or sheep?
25:28 Speaking of Weston A. Price, which is a big promoter of raw milk, do you have a Weston A. Price chapter, or are you familiar with the name?
26:55 Do you usually do your chores before breakfast or after breakfast?

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