Is autumn a bountiful time at River Cottage?
It’s probably the most bountiful time, actually. Spring is the time of new growth, and a lot of excitement, but as I think we made clear in the River Cottage Spring series, there’s a lot of frustration in spring – lovely weather, everything’s green, but there’s not always that much to harvest, until you get to the end of spring, into early summer. But autumn is incredibly bountiful – the veg garden right now has probably got a greater variety and volume of veg than at any other time of year. October is probably the best month of the year. You’ve still got beans and lettuces, you could even have radishes, but you’ve also got the autumn and winter stuff, the roots, the brassicas, all coming through. There’s a hell of a lot going on.
