The Seasonal Supplement: Issue 8, Late Spring
bean-top salad | the vegetable patch | cow parsley
May has burst onto the smallholding in a flurry of new life and fresh greenery. The orchard grass is knee high and brimming with buttercups and cuckooflowers. There are a pair of pheasants living in the hedgerow with their pipping clutch of striped chicks. Sprays of cow parsley line the roadside. Wild rabbits, not seen here for several years, are hoppin…