Fresh Broad Bean & Feta Cheese Salad
Ingredients 250g couscous 250g fresh kitchen garden broad beans 150g fresh kitchen garden spinach leaves Large handful of fresh mint 80g black olives 200g pack good quality feta cheese Method Prepare couscous, according to the packet's instructions. Meanwhile, boil broad beans until tender. Cool in a colander under the cold tap, then drain. Put baby spinach leaves into a [...]
Mad Dogs and English Women!!
Long gone has the winter although April did bring us a few flurries of snow, usual unpredictable West Coast weather, Hello Spring! May Day arrived and to our surprise so did the sun. Long balmy days, bubbling rivers, still lochs and the cooling effects of gentle streams. Or as mummy would say “Itchy ears, stinging insects, toxic plants and [...]
Kitchen Garden Spring Update 28th April 2017
It has been sometime since my last blog on the developments in the Kitchen Garden. It has been a really busy but rewarding winter and even with the brief snow showers at the back end of April it does feel as though spring is here again. My priority for this last winter was to continue to progress the infrastructure of [...]
Hydro Power
The Turn of the Screw’...not the renowned Henry James novel, but the story of our magnificent Archimedean screw...the new source of hydro power at Ardtornish Estate. So apart from producing a mesmerising water motion just what is an Archimedean screw? Named after Archimedes of Syracuse, a mathematician, engineer and astronomer born in 287BC. The screw was created by him to [...]
February 2017 Newsletter
Estate What a busy start to 2017! The main focus of the works team has been to install the new biomass heating main for the yard buildings. The pipes from the boiler house (under construction in the commercial area; it will be contained within the new agricultural shed) have been laid in to Achranich and the joiner’s shop. We plan [...]
Teething Problems & Winter Wonder
Much to my dismay, my owners and I are learning the pitfalls of the youngest member of our Clan gaining his adult teeth. Yes, you have guessed it, Bracken is teething! Now don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that this is a normal process that us dogs must go through and I can forgive the graveyard of damp discarded toys [...]
