Village Raw - ISSUE 13
Village Raw is a magazine that explores cultural stories from Crouch End, East Finchley, Highgate, Muswell Hill and the surrounding areas. The magazine is created by the community, for the community. If you like this issue you can support the project through a subscription or donation. See the links below. The thirteenth issue of Village Raw includes: THE SHOW GOES ON DE LA JARDIN - Jacqueline de la Fuente and her recycled art. ESCAPE ROOM - Adrian Hardy and his miniature worlds. PROJECT PIPE DREAMS - A film about one man’s dream. HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE LITTER - Creating an art project through litter picking. ADVENTURES OF A POND NEWBIE - Improving the back garden ecosystem with an upcycled pond. START AS YOU MEAN TO GO ON - How the British Library is supporting local businesses. COMING TO YOUR DOORSTEP - How the pandemic shifted priorities towards zero waste living. PLANET-FRIENDLY FAMILY FEASTS - A week of nutritious family meals on a budget. FLOUR POWER - How sourdough bread supported the nation and blossomed in our streets. THE VIRTUES OF LIVING WITH WONDERFUL HERBS - Ola Nwakodo introduces us to healing herbs. AND MORE…
Village Raw is a magazine that explores cultural stories from Crouch End, East Finchley, Highgate, Muswell Hill and the surrounding areas. The magazine is created by the community, for the community. If you like this issue you can support the project through a subscription or donation. See the links below. The thirteenth issue of Village Raw includes:
THE SHOW GOES ON DE LA JARDIN - Jacqueline de la Fuente and her recycled art.
ESCAPE ROOM - Adrian Hardy and his miniature worlds.
PROJECT PIPE DREAMS - A film about one man’s dream.
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE LITTER - Creating an art project through litter picking.
ADVENTURES OF A POND NEWBIE - Improving the back garden ecosystem with an upcycled pond.
START AS YOU MEAN TO GO ON - How the British Library is supporting local businesses.
COMING TO YOUR DOORSTEP - How the pandemic shifted priorities towards zero waste living.
PLANET-FRIENDLY FAMILY FEASTS - A week of nutritious family meals on a budget.
FLOUR POWER - How sourdough bread supported the nation and blossomed in our streets.
THE VIRTUES OF LIVING WITH WONDERFUL HERBS - Ola Nwakodo introduces us to healing herbs.
AND MORE…
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JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2021<br />
FREE<br />
VILLAGE RAW<br />
STORIES FROM CROUCH END, EAST FINCHLEY, HIGHGATE, MUSWELL HILL AND SURROUNDING AREAS<br />
Cartographies of the Imagination:A paper exhibition of experimental cartographies / De La Jardin: Jacqueline de la<br />
Fuente and her recycled art / Escape Room: Adrian Hardy and his miniature worlds / Planet-friendly Family Feasts: A week<br />
of nutritious family meals on a budget / Flour Power: How sourdough bread supported the nation and blossomed in our streets.
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CONTENTS<br />
THE SHOW GOES<br />
ON DE LA JARDIN<br />
Jacqueline de la Fuente<br />
and her recycled art<br />
ESCAPE ROOM<br />
Adrian Hardy and his<br />
miniature worlds.<br />
CARTOGRAPHIES<br />
OF THE IMAGINATION<br />
A paper exhibition of<br />
experimental cartographies.<br />
PROJECT PIPE DREAMS<br />
A film about one man’s dream.<br />
HOW I LEARNED<br />
TO LOVE LITTER<br />
Creating an art project<br />
through litter picking.<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
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ADVENTURES OF A POND NEWBIE<br />
Improving the back garden<br />
ecosystem with an upcycled pond.<br />
START AS YOU MEAN TO GO ON<br />
How the British Library is supporting<br />
local businesses.<br />
COMING TO YOUR DOORSTEP<br />
How the pandemic shifted priorities<br />
towards zero waste living.<br />
PLANET-FRIENDLY<br />
FAMILY FEASTS<br />
A week of nutritious family<br />
meals on a budget.<br />
FLOUR POWER<br />
How sourdough bread supported the<br />
nation and blossomed in our streets.<br />
EDITORS<br />
Luciane Pisani<br />
David Reeve<br />
GRAPHIC DESIGN<br />
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Cartographies of the Imagination<br />
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Matthews, Katrina Mirpuri, Ola Nwakodo, Carla Parks,<br />
Andrew Schlussel, Rebecca Shahoud, James Taylor.<br />
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THE VIRTUES OF LIVING<br />
WITH WONDERFUL HERBS<br />
Ola Nwakodo introduces us<br />
to healing herbs.<br />
VILLAGE GREEN<br />
Priory Common Orchard<br />
protest chairs.<br />
THANKS TO:<br />
Kirsty Badenoch, Julie Bland, Alice Dix, Ewa<br />
Domaradzka, Michelle Eshkeri, Meletios Evdokias,<br />
Carla Francombe, Manu Fraser, Jacqueline de la<br />
Fuente, Mickela Hall-Ramsay, Paul Handley, Adrian<br />
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VILLAGE RAW<br />
ARTS & CULTURE<br />
DE LA JARDIN<br />
Interview by Becky Lima-Matthews. Photos by Sheldon Gardner.<br />
As the old saying goes, one person’s trash<br />
is another person’s treasure. Many creative<br />
people have reused and recycled the proverb<br />
time and again. Chef Yotam Ottolenghi used<br />
it to describe how the byproduct of one<br />
food can be perfect for making another.<br />
For Jacqueline de la Fuente, it’s the guiding<br />
principle of the business she runs from<br />
her home in Crouch End, where she lives<br />
with her husband and two children.<br />
An artist and maker, Jacqueline takes other<br />
people’s discarded materials and turns<br />
them into colourful art and sculptural<br />
vases that have been featured in Design Milk,<br />
Architectural Digest Mexico and Apartment<br />
Therapy, sustainability is central to her<br />
approach, influenced partly by her Filipino<br />
heritage and her experience as a textile<br />
designer. Becky Lima-Matthews caught up<br />
with Jacqueline to talk about the work she<br />
creates through De La Jardin.<br />
Everything about the way you work is grounded in sustainability,<br />
starting with the name of your shop. Can you talk about that?<br />
My art is fairly new but the name De la Jardin has been around for<br />
years and is simply a humorous combination of my surname and<br />
my husband’s, Gardner. What I love about it, though, is its reference<br />
to nature. It translates to “of the garden”, which feels very<br />
relevant to my art and its part in sustainability.<br />
Having a young family now has made me more aware of our<br />
daily waste, from egg cartons and household packaging to cardboard<br />
boxes, and more so now with our current climate. With my<br />
passion for ceramics I wanted to see if I could combine this with<br />
everyday materials that I could recycle, especially those we often<br />
regard as poor quality, but are in fact quite the opposite.<br />
Each vase is handmade from recycled card and paper. Is your creative<br />
approach influenced by techniques you learned as a textile<br />
designer and baker?<br />
Making the clay is very similar to making the mixture and forming<br />
the decorations for a cake. I do a lot of drawings and sketches to<br />
develop my ideas and experiment with paints before translating<br />
them into the 3D shapes, which is similar to my design days.<br />
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Your process starts by shredding paper and card by hand and<br />
soaking it in water until it becomes a pulp. You then mix in flour<br />
and glue with a small amount of joint compound to make the clay<br />
sturdier. Were you surprised by the results?<br />
Despite knowing what I could achieve with the textures, I was surprised<br />
by the feeling of the clay, which allowed me to shape and<br />
sculpt it easily.<br />
Using a mixture of card and paper helps make the clay much<br />
stronger and almost like stoneware once it’s dry. Each part of the<br />
vase or object is made in stages and left to dry before being assembled<br />
together. This is then sanded so the surface is textured<br />
and tactile but smooth to the touch. The slow and deliberate construction<br />
leads to very little or no waste when I make each vase.<br />
Some pieces are left in their natural pulp or hand painted using<br />
water-based paints.<br />
Holding my first finished piece, I was surprised by how it dried<br />
into a strong and stone-like vase with quite a weight to it, similar<br />
to ceramics and pottery clay.<br />
You were born in Surrey, but both your parents came from the<br />
Philippines and you moved back there for two years when you<br />
were eight. Is that where the seeds for reusing and recycling<br />
came from?<br />
Growing up I was taught to be resourceful and not to waste, which<br />
has always been part of our culture in the Philippines. I remember<br />
my grandmother turning broken or used items at home into<br />
something new.<br />
Launching an independent, creative business is challenging at<br />
the best of times, but you only started making your vases a few<br />
months before Covid-19 struck. Did creating become a vital outlet<br />
for you?.<br />
I felt like it brought me comfort during such a difficult time and<br />
it gave me an opportunity to express myself. It was a form of escapism<br />
when we were all restricted to our homes - and let’s not<br />
forget homeschooling!<br />
Understandably, you didn’t quite know what to expect when you<br />
first began sharing your work online in March 2020. But people<br />
quickly began to take notice....<br />
When the pandemic hit I really didn’t think there would be much of<br />
a reaction to my work. I wasn’t sure if anyone would understand<br />
my process of circular design and working with waste materials<br />
by elevating them into a new aesthetic. I had only made three<br />
styles - the La Lune in Black, Mio in Lilac and the Leif pot in Natural.<br />
As soon as I shared these on Instagram, someone got in touch<br />
and bought all three original pieces.<br />
Soon after, a London interior design studio commissioned you to<br />
make a Mio vase and they’re now stocked around the world. How<br />
does that feel?<br />
I feel very fortunate to now have my vases stocked in various<br />
countries such as Cool Machine Store in Belgium, Jolie Laide in<br />
Australia and soon the LES Collection in the US. Most recently, I<br />
caught sight of my La Lune Stroke Vase in the home of [television<br />
presenter] Laura Jackson, which was such a nice surprise,<br />
but most of all it was a real honour to have my work featured in<br />
the Architectural Digest Mexico Sustainability Issue in April 2021.<br />
Working from home has its challenges, especially during the<br />
lockdown months. How did you find it?<br />
All my art and vases are made from my home. I have a small shed<br />
which my husband built for me, to do all my sanding work as my<br />
business started to grow. My home is covered in vases and I’m<br />
very lucky my kids understand what I do and know not to touch!<br />
However, I will need a bigger studio space soon.<br />
Supporting local business and forging closer links with the community<br />
have been some of the silver linings to a turbulent year.<br />
How are you part of the community of independent businesses?<br />
There are many independent shops and cafes, which I truly admire,<br />
as they all bring their own unique personalities to our area,<br />
and draw our community closer together - such as Middle Lane<br />
Market and Sourdough Sophia, to Pickled Pepper and Niddle Noddle,<br />
which my kids love. And let’s not forget our local greengrocers.<br />
As well as using my own paper waste I sometimes source<br />
them locally. Middle Lane Market is just up the road from me, and<br />
the owners Andrew and Kelly have always been so supportive and<br />
are happy to give me any paper card waste whenever I call upon<br />
them - especially stacks of their bright-pink, egg-carton trays! It<br />
feels good to help reuse other waste from local businesses, and I<br />
like the idea that we’re both doing our bit for the environment and<br />
supporting each other at the same time.<br />
What would you advise others thinking to create in a more conscious<br />
way?<br />
There are many waste materials close to home that are of high<br />
quality, even though it’s no longer classed as useful. We just need<br />
to work out how to manipulate and rework them, but also bear in<br />
mind the process it takes to make this into new designs. Experimenting<br />
with waste materials can cost very little, but hopefully,<br />
in doing so, it will expose new ways of using it with less impact on<br />
our environment. •<br />
Check out Jacqueline’s designs at: www.delajardin.com or through Instagram: @delajardin<br />
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ARTS & CULTURE<br />
ESCAPE ROOM<br />
Artist and musician Adrian Hardy recreates<br />
haunting models of abandoned buildings<br />
(and a famous local landmark).<br />
Words by Rebecca Shahoud.<br />
Photos by Dan Bridge (portraits)<br />
and Adrian Hardy (still rooms).<br />
“I wanted to draw attention to the fact that things are often<br />
not what they first appear,” says artist, graphic designer, multiinstrumentalist<br />
and modelmaker Adrian Hardy, who has created<br />
– among other things – a hyper-realistic model of Crouch End’s<br />
independent cinema The Arthouse. It stands complete, with<br />
stained glass windows, film posters, hanging baskets and even a<br />
six-centimetre bicycle, made from solder wires and garden ties.<br />
Lit up with LEDs and fibre optics, it was on display at Irvin Bar and<br />
Grill in Topsfield Parade. Sadly, for its diners, the restaurant closed<br />
its doors for the last time in April, and Adrian has the model back<br />
in his possession.<br />
Adrian’s ability to distort perception could be due to his<br />
birthplace, an outrageously picturesque area that inspired an<br />
infamous children’s series and is now coveted by various filmlocation<br />
scouts. He was born in the southernmost tip of Northern<br />
Ireland, in Kilkeel, Co Down – a fishing village in the shadow of the<br />
Mourne Mountains. He describes the mountains as the “most<br />
beautiful” in Ireland. “I’m biased, of course,” he says modestly,<br />
but he’s not alone in that thought.<br />
The Mournes are where CS Lewis found inspiration for The<br />
Chronicles of Narnia. The Belfast-born author wrote about how, in<br />
a certain light, the mountains made him feel as if “a giant might<br />
raise his head over the next ridge”.<br />
The area was also used to shoot the series Game of Thrones<br />
and Vikings, and Robert Eggers’ upcoming 2022 feature film The<br />
Northman was filmed on the Mournes. Perhaps it will be shown<br />
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ARTS & CULTURE<br />
Previous page: Adrian in his studio (left) and White Bedroom model (right). This page: Interior with Dutch Paintings model.<br />
This page: Interior with Las Meninas model (top), Adrian with the Arthouse model (bottom).<br />
at The Arthouse. Looking at the vast, unmanicured landscape is<br />
enough to make anyone feel very small. But for those with vivid<br />
imaginations, the hypnotic scenery is proof of other realities.<br />
Adrian started making models at the back of his classroom,<br />
where his surreal sculptures may have shocked the nuns in his<br />
Catholic grammar school, but impressed lecturers at Belfast<br />
School of Art, where he went on to study. He supplemented his<br />
student grant by playing gigs in pubs across Northern Ireland<br />
– sometimes Belfast – driving hours back to Kilkeel through<br />
mountainous roads. This was during the Troubles, and the roads<br />
were often barricaded. Adrian admits it got a little nerve-wracking<br />
when he was flagged down by soldiers waving red lights.<br />
Following the death of his father in 2010, Adrian went<br />
back to Ireland to start work on another large, scaled-down<br />
project. Armed with a camera and a tripod, he spent six months<br />
roaming the countryside for abandoned buildings. To get to his<br />
destinations, he often had to wade through waterlogged terrain<br />
and brambly thickets. Farmers shouted at him for trespassing.<br />
He was chased by dogs.<br />
“In my childhood, I was surrounded by the remains of<br />
other people’s lives,” Adrian says. “My father’s job was selling<br />
second-hand furniture gathered from clearing old houses.”<br />
These memories created the foundation for his Stilled Lives<br />
photographic exhibition.<br />
The photographs are only one half of it; the images are<br />
mirrored by haunting replicas of the rooms themselves. The model<br />
rooms contain many of Adrian’s artistic influences: paintings by<br />
artists including Velázquez and Hoogstraten – himself a master<br />
of illusion – as well as images of the original rooms within the<br />
model ones.<br />
“It’s an escapement into another world. Worlds within worlds,”<br />
says Adrian over a pot of hot tea at Beam café in Crouch End. “I<br />
wanted to ask, what is reality and what is fiction?” Adrian found<br />
beauty in the relics: “Tinned boxes under beds, a pair of boots,<br />
photographs, letters, a piano now watched over by pigeons.”<br />
In 2015, Adrian’s model-making skills were noticed by Tristan<br />
Sharps, artistic director of Dreamthinkspeak, a company that<br />
specialises in site-specific theatre. He was commissioned<br />
to recreate derelict rooms in Shoreditch Town Hall as part<br />
of theatre production Absent, before the show was taken to<br />
Blackpool, where Adrian reproduced the Winter Gardens Empress<br />
Ballroom. This was his biggest challenge as a modelmaker, with<br />
hours of research undertaken, hundreds of sketches drawn and<br />
measurements logged before he could start to build.<br />
Would he be open to more commissions? “More than happy,”<br />
he nods. “Especially for some of the local buildings in Crouch End,<br />
like the Clock Tower or Dunns Bakery.”<br />
Readers may recognise Adrian as a music teacher – he has<br />
taught hundreds of children in the area, and is currently working on<br />
a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Coleridge Primary<br />
School. He is currently planning an exhibition, and is yet to confirm<br />
a location, but he’s keen on showcasing his works at the new arts<br />
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More of Adrian’s work can be seen on his website: www.adrianhardymodels.co.uk<br />
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PARTNER CONTENT<br />
CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE IMAGINATION<br />
Hot on the heels of the OmVed/<br />
Thrown Contemporary Growth<br />
exhibition, and its involvement<br />
in the Highgate Festival, OmVed<br />
is playing host to a month-long<br />
experimental drawing festival,<br />
Cartographies of the Imagination.<br />
Words by David Reeve.<br />
Photos by Will Hearle (top) and courtesy<br />
of Kirsty Badenoch (opposite page).<br />
Showcasing four years of drawing research, OmVed’s glasshouse<br />
will be transformed into a three-tiered paper exhibition of<br />
experimental cartographies, mapping places known, unknown,<br />
forgotten and fictional, designed by nature-inspired architects<br />
PiM.studio. The otherworldly setting forms the inspiration for a<br />
series of conversations, workshops, feasts and a growing, participatory<br />
exhibition exploring the real and the imagined through<br />
the discipline of drawing.<br />
“To map a place is to create a whole new one,” say co-curator<br />
Kirsty Badenoch. “Through the act of plotting, tracing and redrawing,<br />
new relationships are made that both belong to - and are<br />
entirely distinct from - the terrains they started out describing.”<br />
Co-curator Sayan Skandarajah adds: “Cartographies of the Imagination<br />
explores the outer limits of what a map can be, interrogat-<br />
ing the bit of lost land that falls between the pages of an atlas,<br />
journeying to places known, unknown, forgotten and fictional.”<br />
Kirsty and Sayan are artists and landscape architectural researchers<br />
- the exhibition brings together the pair’s experimental<br />
drawings into lost lands and cityscapes, alongside works from<br />
leading voices in visual art, film, technology and academia. Exhibiting<br />
artists include: Francesca Benedetto, Nat Chard, Penelope<br />
Haralambidou, Charnjeev Kang, Aisling O’Carroll, Saskia Olde Wolbers,<br />
ScanLab Projects, Mira Sanders, Doug Specht, Llew Watkins<br />
and Izabela Wieczorek.<br />
A series of experimental evening salons, and day and weekend<br />
workshops throughout the month, will explore how we navigate,<br />
perceive and translate the world around us through drawing. This<br />
Drawing Laboratory invites schoolchildren and youth groups, art<br />
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and architecture students, artists, makers, growers and other<br />
creatives to participate in a giant collaborative map of the imagination:<br />
Cosmocartos. The map will be on show throughout the<br />
exhibition, a live drawing experiment that is drawn, redrawn and<br />
re-redrawn over the course of the festival, by the eyes, hands and<br />
imaginations of many. Additionally, a host of parties, supper clubs<br />
and tours will invite guests to meet, talk and celebrate throughout<br />
the festival.<br />
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All events will be run at reduced capacity, in limited time slots, adhering to current<br />
government guidelines.<br />
The exhibition runs until the end of July. You can find out more about the exhibition<br />
and events on the website: www.cartographiesoftheimagination.com and Instagram:<br />
@cartographiesoftheimagination
VILLAGE RAW<br />
PROJECT<br />
PIPE DREAMS<br />
How a film about one man’s<br />
dream becomes a celebration<br />
of life and friendship.<br />
Words by Miki Lentin. Photos by Manu Fraser.<br />
“Before we start, I just want to say that this is not a film about<br />
pipe organs,” local filmmaker Manus Fraser says, “it’s a film about<br />
the greatest question on earth – what makes us who we are?”<br />
It’s a Thursday morning. I’m sitting opposite film director<br />
Manus Fraser outside Velasquez and Van Wezel in Crouch End. The<br />
sun is glaring into my eyes, the coffee is strong, and we’ve met to<br />
discuss his latest film, Project Pipe Dreams; a film that isn’t about<br />
a pipe organ, but about aging, a bloody-minded determination to<br />
follow your dreams against impossible odds, and a retired South<br />
African primary school headteacher, Gilbert Reines.<br />
So what does Gilbert do, when an organ he buys arrives from<br />
Canada at Holy Innocents Church, Crouch End, 17 years ago? Despite<br />
being from a musical family, he’d never attempted to build<br />
an organ before, but just like dreaming of a better society while<br />
growing up in apartheid South Africa, he wasn’t deterred.<br />
He did the only thing he could think of - he built, wired, restored,<br />
polished, climbed up and down ladders, tested and played<br />
the organ, all by hand. He constantly added parts and pipes, until<br />
eventually he started to find peace with the beauty of the sound.<br />
Nothing was going to stand in his way.<br />
That was until Manus found Gilbert, now aged 84, up a ladder<br />
in Holy Innocents Church and their lives changed forever. “Here,”<br />
Manus says, “was this fascinating character, who had a magic<br />
about him, a real lust for life… it was handmade insanity.”<br />
Manus spent three years with Gilbert, not only documenting<br />
the continuing build of the organ, but also his life, his dreams, and<br />
the legacy he wanted to leave. And as Project Pipe Dreams started<br />
to take shape, Manus discovered that this wasn’t just a story<br />
of something being built by hand, but also a story of friendship,<br />
a handmade piece of art that sustained them both. It was also a<br />
story of grief - during the build Gilbert’s wife died, so the organ<br />
became his focus.<br />
As the filming progressed, the organ was now the connection<br />
between Manus, Gilbert and the world around them. Gilbert, the<br />
teacher, was now being assisted by Manus, the filmmaker, and his<br />
nephews: Remo, a former trapeze artist, and Clem, the hot-rod<br />
building organ specialist. They both flew thousands of miles every<br />
few months to help get the job done. Between them there was a<br />
frequency of work that defied logic, a life-affirming determination<br />
to finish what Gilbert had started, so that together they could<br />
create an experience everyone could enjoy.<br />
“You know, every pipe organ is unique. The sound waves each<br />
pipe creates resonate with the other pipes, creating frequencies<br />
and sub frequencies that we cannot hear but that have a physical<br />
effect on the human body,” says Manus. “That’s not something<br />
that can be reproduced through a recording on your laptop.”<br />
Manus reflects that, for Gilbert, this project was about leaving<br />
a gift to the community. Gilbert died in August 2020. He wanted<br />
everyone around him to enjoy the unique sound of an organ as<br />
much as he did, and importantly Manus wanted viewers to celebrate<br />
the things that are often overlooked: the elderly, the broken<br />
parts of things that are sometimes discarded, the quiet rebellion<br />
of not giving up.<br />
I ask Manus if the organ is finished. He sighs. “When is something<br />
ever really finished?” But was it Gilbert’s experience of<br />
apartheid that made him determined to leave the world a better<br />
place? “I’m still not sure,” Manus says, “I hope the audience will<br />
make up their own minds. What I do know is that he was an inspirational<br />
character who believed you could achieve anything if you<br />
put your mind to it. As he says in the film, ‘Got a dream? Go with<br />
it man!” •<br />
Project Pipe Dreams, by Big Wide World Films, will be shown at The Arthouse Cinema in the<br />
near future. See listings for more details.<br />
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VILLAGE RAW<br />
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE LITTER<br />
Love isn’t always poetry, romance and chocolates. You can tap into<br />
the emotion by simply being a good citizen, argues Andrew Schlussel.<br />
Words by Andrew Schlussel. Collage by Muswell Hill Primary School children.<br />
I love litter. I’m excited when I see it because I love picking it up. I<br />
wasn’t always this way.<br />
When I was a child, my dad took us on a trip to Germany. I fancied<br />
myself a budding artist and I was drawing in the backseat<br />
while we cruised along the Autobahn. Inspired by our museum visits,<br />
I was drawing Jesus Christ on the cross. My siblings started to<br />
make fun of me so I crumpled up the piece of paper and threw it<br />
out the window. My dad was furious, and let me know how wrong it<br />
was to litter, especially as we were guests in a very clean country.<br />
I still feel guilty. The message was heard loud and clear. I never<br />
intentionally littered again.<br />
When a work colleague asked for volunteers to join his litter-picking<br />
group, I enthusiastically joined. His vision is to make<br />
finding a piece of litter on the ground as rare as finding a £50<br />
note. We use technology and creativity to raise awareness and<br />
make a difference. The group is called PicUp, because the main<br />
tool we use involves taking pictures of the litter you pick up. We’re<br />
using an app called Litterati. When you use the app, it documents<br />
what, where and when you picked up litter, and the data collected<br />
is used to get corporations to change their ways and gives governments<br />
the information they need to effect change.<br />
In July 2020 I hosted a webinar with Jeff Kirschner, the CEO of<br />
Litterati. One question that had been burning inside me is: how<br />
do we stop people from littering in the first place? What is the<br />
psychological state that causes them to litter and how can we<br />
counteract that? The answer? You don’t. People who litter are not<br />
worth the time and effort. He believes that collecting data is the<br />
best way to make a difference on a large scale. I found this freeing<br />
when I heard this. If litter collecting is motivated by hate or<br />
disgust, it is unpleasant. If it is motivated by love of your environment<br />
and community, it feels great.<br />
PicUp put a creative spin on the use of this app, by using<br />
those images to create photomosaics. Our first one was of Tower<br />
Bridge, to remind people that the beauty of London is tarnished<br />
by being covered with litter, and that each small action makes<br />
a difference, literally contributing to the bigger picture. Then<br />
we completed a challenge where we exclusively collected PPE -<br />
masks and gloves. We raised money for the NHS, then honored the<br />
heroic frontline workers by creating images of them with discarded<br />
PPE litter, to remind people to take care of their environment<br />
while the NHS takes care of us. To this day I’m excited every time I<br />
see a mask or glove on the ground.<br />
One festive November we were celebrating Guy Fawkes on the<br />
grounds of a school and I was astounded by the amount of litter<br />
at the end. I realised we are failing to teach our children to take<br />
care of their environment. We decided to take the PicUp project<br />
to schools, and Muswell Hill Primary quickly embraced the idea.<br />
The challenge was to have the children pick up 3,000 pieces of<br />
litter, from which we made a photomosaic to put up at the school.<br />
The challenge started on Earth Day, April 22nd, and ended on June<br />
5th, World Environment Day. We ended up collecting 2,<strong>13</strong>4, a little<br />
short of the goal, but plenty to make a nice photomosaic.<br />
Did it make a difference to the amount of litter on the streets<br />
in Muswell Hill and the surrounding area? No. Things seem worse<br />
around here lately; I think the warm weather has brought everyone,<br />
along with their litter, out into the streets and parks. Did it<br />
make a difference to the children? I hope so. Maybe a few of them<br />
will think more about the litter they generate and what they do<br />
with it afterward. The image of the school made from pieces of<br />
rubbish will hang for a long time, so even those who didn’t participate<br />
in the challenge might reflect on it.<br />
I’d like to see us bring this challenge to 10,000 primary schools<br />
around the world. PicUp has begun conversations about simplifying<br />
and automating the process, to make it easy for schools to do<br />
this project on their own. You can learn more at picup.org.uk. It’s<br />
easy to get involved and help. The next time you see a piece of<br />
litter, pick it up, and you may learn to love it too.•<br />
You can learn more at: www.picup.org.uk<br />
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VILLAGE RAW<br />
ADVENTURES OF<br />
A POND NEWBIE<br />
Climate campaigner Fiona Dear explores how she can improve her own back<br />
garden ecosystem with the addition of a bathtub pond.<br />
Words and photo by Fiona Dear.<br />
I *love* gardens, and I’ve long embraced the joys of leaving nature<br />
to take over. Bees, bugs and other wildlife are having a hard time<br />
in our paved, tarmacked and pest-controlled world. Wildlife needs<br />
all the help it can get, as places to live and feed are lost at an<br />
alarming rate. I’d read that ponds are gold dust for wildlife, so this<br />
year I decided to create one in my little garden.<br />
I mostly followed advice from the RSPB on how to make a<br />
mini pond. I’m an upcycling enthusiast, so I took to Whatsapp and<br />
asked if anyone on my street had a container we could use as<br />
the pond base. We had a few offers, but then we spotted an old<br />
bathtub, in our neighbour’s front garden, and he was more than<br />
happy for us to take it off his hands.<br />
I ordered an oversized plug and aquarium-safe silicone sealant<br />
to keep it watertight. I then dug a hole for the tub, and used the<br />
remaining earth to build flower beds around it - to provide easy<br />
access for wildlife, but with the added bonus of keeping our<br />
toddler at a safe distance from the water. Rocks scavenged from<br />
our local Facebook group provided a staircase out of the pond for<br />
critters, and gravel from our front garden lined the bottom.<br />
Lastly, I needed plants. I couldn’t scavenge these, so I headed<br />
to the garden centre. I started with two potted plants and<br />
three bundles of oxygenators, but have added lots more (plus<br />
some water snails) since. That’s partly because I have a plant<br />
addiction; but also, as the water darkened, I needed more plants<br />
to oxygenate the water, cover the surface to stop algae taking<br />
over, and offer additional entry and exit routes for creatures.<br />
Then to fill it up. Ideally you should fill the pond with rainwater,<br />
but we don’t have a water butt so it was tap water plus a wildlifefriendly<br />
dechlorinator.<br />
Having established the pond, I quickly became obsessed. I<br />
had lots of questions, and found it hard to get straight answers by<br />
Googling, so I took to Facebook and found a brilliantly knowledgeable<br />
wildlife ponds group, where I shared some pictures.<br />
The main advice was to build a more gradual slope to help<br />
critters exit the water. This was tricky, because baths are slippery!<br />
But I eventually created a “beach” by putting a paving slab on top<br />
of rocks, then a slanted roof tile covered by gravel. An unexpected<br />
bonus of all this work was figuring out how to keep cats away, and<br />
give the pond wildlife a chance. A sonar repeller, lavender plants,<br />
and a forest of twigs in popular areas did the trick.<br />
We added some tadpoles from a neighbour’s pond but, alas,<br />
that didn’t have a happy ending. I’m not sure what happened to<br />
ours, but I suspect that as the pond was still finding its balance,<br />
the conditions just weren’t right. One day our lovely tadpoles<br />
were just not there. I later read that the best time to start a pond<br />
is in autumn, so that it’s settled by the time things get interesting<br />
in spring. I also found out that moving tadpoles or frogspawn<br />
between ponds can transfer diseases, so from now on I’ll just wait<br />
for critters to come to me.<br />
The pond now has its first natural inhabitants: insect larvae.<br />
Okay, not the most exciting creatures, but they’re the basis of the<br />
food chain. Fingers crossed that diving beetles, dragonflies, bats<br />
and, of course, froggies will follow.<br />
Has the pond been as easy as I thought? Er, no. Has it been a<br />
source of absolute joy? Oh yes. Would I recommend it? Absolutely.<br />
For the wildlife, for your wellbeing, for the beauty…<br />
•<br />
Check the RSPB website for how to create a mini-pond: www.rspb.org.uk<br />
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VILLAGE RAW<br />
PARTNER CONTENT<br />
START AS YOU<br />
MEAN TO GO ON<br />
The British Library is helping<br />
entrepreneurs make their business<br />
dreams a reality with support<br />
available locally.<br />
Words by Carla Parks.<br />
When she was still only 21, Mickela Hall-Ramsay had a dream to<br />
empower kids and provide them with opportunities to make the<br />
most of themselves. Just over 10 years later, she runs HR Sports<br />
Academy, a social enterprise in Haringey that has touched the<br />
lives of over 35,000 young people through its sports, afterschool<br />
and holiday clubs.<br />
With her brother Christian as her co-pilot, she’s managed to<br />
succeed where others have failed - but it has been a journey of<br />
highs and lows. “You go through a rollercoaster of emotions as a<br />
founder and it does require a lot of perseverance and resilience,”<br />
Mickela tells <strong>Village</strong> <strong>Raw</strong>. “The only way to make sure you get<br />
through it is by having a key support system that is there for you<br />
and having a strong network of professionals.”<br />
More and more of us are starting our own businesses. Last<br />
year, there were nearly six million small businesses in the UK, a<br />
growth of nearly 2%. It’s estimated that there are 77 companies<br />
founded every hour. Sadly, about 50-60% of businesses will fail<br />
within three years. Getting support in the early stages is crucial<br />
and yet many new business owners struggle to access it.<br />
For today’s entrepreneurs, however, there are plenty of resources.<br />
The British Library Business & IP Centre (BIPC) is one of<br />
the most extensive, with virtual courses, workshops, access to<br />
business and market research information, and one-to-one mentorship.<br />
All the support is either free or low cost. In the last year,<br />
it was able to pivot its courses and workshops to be fully online,<br />
supporting about 26,000 business owners during the pandemic.<br />
To date, one million people have come through the BIPC’s doors<br />
since it was founded in 2006. Those who have used its services<br />
are up to four times more likely to create a sustainable business<br />
than those who don’t, with a failure rate of just 10%, much lower<br />
than the national average. The BIPC expanded to other libraries in<br />
the country several years ago and has a particularly good track<br />
record of being inclusive and diverse: over half who use it are<br />
women and a third are from underrepresented backgrounds.<br />
Mickela used the British Library’s support to scale up HR Sports<br />
Academy at a time when she felt she had hit a wall. “I had got to a<br />
stage where I’d been doing something for so long and it was consistent<br />
but there was no growth,” she recalls. “I think a lot of it was<br />
because we were fully engrossed in delivering. There was no time<br />
to sit down and look at how the business was progressing.”<br />
Mickela benefited from workshops, targeted courses with<br />
professionals, and mentorship that allowed her to successfully<br />
restructure her business. The founder is now the ambassador of<br />
Start-Ups in London Libraries, a service available to anyone with<br />
a business registered in London in the last 12 months or an idea<br />
they’d like to develop. The aim is to bring some of the BIPC’s vast<br />
resources to your local library and high street, with 10 participating<br />
boroughs in the capital, including Haringey.<br />
Nonia Jeroh is one of the small business owners to have used<br />
the start-up service since its launch in 2019. She’s the founder<br />
of Crafty North Londoner, a platform for sustainable makers and<br />
creatives to sell and exhibit their work both online and in person.<br />
The British Library programme helped her with creeping selfdoubt,<br />
particularly the mentorship she received from Haringey’s<br />
dedicated business champion, Nicola Moore. “Family and friends<br />
will always be your cheerleaders,” she says, “but an outside perspective<br />
makes all the difference.”<br />
She advises others to build a network and take advantage of<br />
the wealth of knowledge. Many who have been through Start-ups<br />
in London Libraries – and that’s nearly 2500 people so far – rate<br />
the course on Intellectual Property as particularly valuable. “It really<br />
helps to talk with those who have been through and overcome<br />
challenges,” Nonia adds. “It’s fair to say the last year has taught<br />
us situations can change at any given moment.” Crafty NoLo has<br />
recently launched the Made in Haringey Pop Up shop in The Mall<br />
Wood Green. This summer it will be hosting an amazing range of<br />
local and north London-based female makers and traders, from<br />
homewares to accessories and much more. The Pop Up is the first<br />
of its kind in Haringey, which has been funded by Haringey Council’s<br />
Good Economy Recovery Plan and The Mall Wood Green.<br />
For Mickela, things are looking up after Covid negatively affected<br />
business. She used powerful storytelling to tell of the<br />
academy’s impact, attracting funding and grants that kept her<br />
afloat when schools shut. She’s now a mentor to entrepreneurs<br />
who come through Start-ups in London Libraries, passing on<br />
what she’s learned. “This programme is an amazing opportunity<br />
for people to gain valuable information. Not having that can slow<br />
people down,” she observes. “It becomes very daunting, very<br />
nerve wracking, and you just don’t take that leap.”•<br />
For more on Start-ups in London Libraries, visit bl.uk/SiLL<br />
To find out more about the BIPC, go to bl.uk/BIPC<br />
You can contact Nicola Moore, Haringey’s small business champion, by emailing<br />
startups@haringey.gov.uk<br />
PHOTOGRAPHS OF MICKELA HALL-RAMSAY BY ELLIOTT WILCOX. SELF-PORTRAIT BY NONIA JEROH.<br />
Top and bottom right:<br />
Mickela Hall-Ramsay<br />
at HR Sports Academy.<br />
Bottom left:<br />
Nonia Jeroh, the founder<br />
of Crafty North Londoner.<br />
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VILLAGE RAW<br />
SUSTAINABILITY<br />
COMING<br />
TO YOUR<br />
DOORSTEP<br />
With the pandemic shifting<br />
social and environmental<br />
priorities, Lisa Jones<br />
explains how the milk<br />
floats she grew up with<br />
inspired the vision for<br />
The People’s Pantry.<br />
Words by Lisa Jones.<br />
Photos by Julie Kim (bike)<br />
and Lisa Jones.<br />
Global crises have always left social and<br />
economic devastation in their wake, but<br />
also accelerated positive change. World<br />
War II brought us the NHS, World War I<br />
paved the way for the suffrage movement,<br />
the Spanish flu gave way to the roaring<br />
twenties. Even the plague flicked a coin<br />
over its shoulder and ended feudalism.<br />
The impact of this pandemic is expected<br />
to linger for a decade: across education,<br />
employment models, urban planning,<br />
digital policies, community support, and<br />
confidence in central government. Meanwhile,<br />
Dr Nicholas Christakis, author of<br />
Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring<br />
Impact of Coronavirus on the Way we Live,<br />
foresees an era of indulgence. He envisions<br />
packed sporting and cultural events,<br />
gorging on missed social experiences, and<br />
a smattering of “sexual licentiousness, liberal<br />
spending and a reverse of religiosity”.<br />
However, my money is on Covid ushering in<br />
an era of heightened social responsibility.<br />
The pandemic has introduced us to our<br />
neighbours, revealed our community as<br />
supportive and talented and demonstrated<br />
that shopping locally is convenient,<br />
personal and more reliable than our shaky<br />
global supply chains. We have belatedly<br />
appreciated key workers, acknowledged<br />
that life really is too short and that “stuff”<br />
is thus pointless. We peered outside our<br />
bubble (in its original sense) and realised<br />
that change is needed. And nowhere more<br />
so than environmentally.<br />
Climate breakdown has been high on<br />
the agenda for decades. But being so<br />
cataclysmically confronted by the connection<br />
between human health and that<br />
of our planet - while witnessing its baby<br />
steps towards self-healing - has been<br />
frightening, humbling and hopeful. Roads<br />
were safer, wildlife bolder, skies clearer,<br />
air cleaner, neighbourhoods quieter, birds<br />
louder… the future brighter?<br />
I believe so. So strong is my faith in a<br />
societal epiphany that my husband and I<br />
launched a business embracing all of the<br />
above. The People’s Pantry is an e-commerce<br />
refill service, delivering unpackaged,<br />
ethical and sustainable household and pantry<br />
staples to doorsteps, in reusable jars<br />
and bottles. The “empties” are then left out<br />
at the next delivery, to be sterilised and reused,<br />
in a model pioneered by the milk round.<br />
We began trialling this during the lockdown<br />
with an ex-Royal Mail delivery bike we named<br />
Eric. Alongside Eric we’re launching a parallel<br />
mobile shop in July. Ernie (of course) is a<br />
1970s electric milk float, impetuously bought<br />
off eBay in Lockdown 2.0. It has since been<br />
meticulously restored and repurposed with<br />
refill dispensers, from which customers can<br />
fill their own containers, closing that loop<br />
still tighter. Ernie will be variously pitching up<br />
at markets, car parks or your own street, if<br />
neighbours book a visit.<br />
Refilling is the future. However, it brings<br />
with it a whole new revolutionary vocabulary<br />
and set of hashtags, which notably don’t<br />
include “recycling”: #ReduceReuseRecycle<br />
has become #UseCleanReuse. That milk bottle<br />
collection is now a “closed loop system”<br />
or a “circular economy”. Target shoppers<br />
are “conscious consumers” who check the<br />
“traceability” of each element of a product’s<br />
journey, eschewing “SUPs” (single-use plastics)<br />
and smelling corporate “greenwashing”<br />
of carbon and ethical footprints a mile off.<br />
Not only do we want to help reduce<br />
those SUPs by making refill shopping as<br />
simple as possible, but we also want to reinstate<br />
the weekly shop as a social event<br />
accompanied by the feelgood of contributing<br />
and belonging to one’s community.<br />
Covid has highlighted that it not only matters<br />
what we consume, and what social<br />
and environmental impact it has had on its<br />
journey, but who sells it to us and how.<br />
And that goes for our little section<br />
of the supply chain too. Setting up The<br />
People’s Pantry has gloriously revealed a<br />
parallel, zero waste world of impassioned<br />
independents, all prioritising integrity,<br />
transparency and authenticity over profit.<br />
Each with a story, many working with<br />
friends or family, all determined to make<br />
a difference (as well as sell exceptional<br />
products), and all energised by a collective<br />
cause.<br />
I’m not suggesting for a minute that<br />
this movement compensates for the<br />
tragedy of the pandemic. But these are<br />
exciting times, nevertheless, reaffirming<br />
the good in humanity and potentially putting<br />
the consumer in control of our planet’s<br />
future.<br />
•<br />
For more information and bookings across N8, N10, N11<br />
and N22, visit: www.thepeoplespantry.biz<br />
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VILLAGE RAW<br />
FOOD & DRINK<br />
PLANET-FRIENDLY<br />
FAMILY FEASTS<br />
Can you cook five family meals on a small budget using only high-quality<br />
ingredients from independent suppliers? <strong>Village</strong> <strong>Raw</strong> joins<br />
chef James Taylor in the kitchen to find out.<br />
Words by Carla Parks.<br />
Photos by Kate Kuzminova.<br />
Recipes by James Taylor.<br />
Despite good intentions, the furthest I get with planning family<br />
meals is knowing on Monday what we might eat on Tuesday. More<br />
often, I find myself standing in front of the refrigerator in the evenings<br />
wondering how I can make a meal from an odd assortment<br />
of vegetables and condiments. It’s a bit like an episode of Ainsley<br />
Harriott’s Ready Steady Cook on repeat.<br />
Add in two children who don’t like to eat the same things and<br />
it becomes a daily challenge that can involve sprinting to the<br />
supermarket for something packaged in a plastic tray. We order<br />
weekly takeaways, too, which often induce pangs of guilt because<br />
of the amount of plastic containers that come with the food.<br />
Like many people, I aspire to eat better-quality food that isn’t<br />
being shipped halfway around the world or wrapped in cling film.<br />
I’d like to use up more of what I have already, but I find that much<br />
of my food gets wasted, mainly because I tend to buy more as a<br />
solution to not knowing what to cook. According to Wrap, a charity<br />
that works to create a more sustainable world, we throw away 6.6<br />
million tonnes of household food a year in the UK alone. Almost<br />
three-quarters of it is food we could have eaten. This waste contributes<br />
to destructive greenhouse gases, harming our planet.<br />
Could a chef change my unsustainable habits and those of<br />
other busy families who don’t have weekly planners, big budgets<br />
and a whole lot of time? James Taylor hopes so. He’s an executive<br />
chef at two local primary schools, working with a meagre budget<br />
of about 75p per child. He wants to prove that children can be well<br />
fed on quality ingredients that cost less.<br />
Previously a chef at the Pavilion Cafe in Bounds Green, James<br />
now combines the day job with catering for private clients and<br />
hosting supperclubs. He comes across many people who want to<br />
embrace a more “flexitarian” way of eating. “Lots of people I speak<br />
with say their ideal way of eating would be to have less meat and<br />
fish,” he tells me. “But when they do, it would be the highest quality.”<br />
Applying the principle that less could be more, James wanted<br />
to see whether it was possible to cook five family meals using<br />
high-quality seasonal ingredients, sourced only through independent<br />
suppliers, for a budget of £70. The Office for National<br />
Statistics estimate that a typical UK household with 2.4 people<br />
spent £97 on food weekly, including restaurants and takeaways<br />
but not alcohol, in 2019/20. We’ve adjusted our budget to take<br />
account of the fact that it’s only Monday to Friday.<br />
What follows are five easy-to-cook, healthy recipes that any<br />
family can make in less than an hour. You will need to invest in<br />
some store cupboard essentials such as couscous, chickpeas,<br />
rice, lentils and pasta. We used Nourished Communities, an online<br />
market stall based in Highbury, for some of ours. We supplemented<br />
this with additional dry goods and tomatoes from Middle Lane<br />
Market in Crouch End.<br />
Keeping to our plan to stay local when possible and avoid<br />
supermarkets, we sourced our organic vegetables through Crop<br />
Drop, a subscription box service in Haringey that will drop your<br />
fruit and veg at different collection points in the borough. Our<br />
large box included fennel, onions, potatoes, carrots, beetroot,<br />
asparagus, spring greens and pea shoots, costing £15.50.<br />
We bought our free-range, slow-grown chicken from Fosse<br />
Meadows Farm, a small business based in Leicestershire, but<br />
which sells to Ally Pally Farmers’ Market. Eight drumsticks cost<br />
about £7. Our fish was sourced from SoleShare, a fish box scheme<br />
in London that only works with small-scale British fishermen.<br />
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FOOD & DRINK<br />
We got two fillets of coley from a once-a-week monthly subscription<br />
box that ordinarily costs £42.75. Our portion came to £10.70.<br />
In order to make the most of his weekly budget, James explains<br />
that most of the meals are vegetarian or plant-based, using<br />
high-quality meat and fish on just two days out of five. As more<br />
people become aware of the damage industrial farming can do,<br />
he believes this way of eating is better for our planet, our health<br />
and even our pockets.<br />
We ended up spending a total of £55.40 for five evening meals<br />
for a family of two adults and two children, well under our original<br />
budget. This included adding in the cost of olive oil, butter, spices,<br />
and additional items such as ginger and garlic. All the recipes were<br />
made on the same day over five hours and there was no waste.<br />
I came along to see James in the kitchen, and I can confirm<br />
he didn’t appear to be breaking a sweat. As a vegetarian, I enjoyed<br />
the charred spring greens and the freshness of the curry<br />
cooked with quinoa, but the chicken was particularly popular with<br />
children. Some of the portions were generous, with leftovers that<br />
could be turned into easy lunches the next day.<br />
“I’m aiming to encourage sustainable cooking, responsible<br />
sourcing and healthy eating, using high-welfare and organic<br />
ingredients,” the chef says. The grains in the dishes are interchangeable,<br />
he adds, and the spices and flavourings could be<br />
altered to suit your tastes. James plans to experiment with differently<br />
themed meals in the future. Watch this space.<br />
COSTINGS<br />
9 1 large organic veg box<br />
from Crop Drop organic veg............... £15.50<br />
9 8 chicken drumsticks from<br />
Fosse Meadows at Ally Pally<br />
Farmer’s Market .......................... £7.08<br />
9 2 fillets of coley from SoleShare<br />
from a once a week monthly<br />
subscription @ £42.75....................<br />
9 350g penne pasta..........................<br />
9 150g barley couscous......................<br />
9 150g greenwheat freekeh...................<br />
9 2 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes...........<br />
9 1 bulb garlic...............................<br />
£1.80<br />
95P<br />
9 100g tomato puree............................. £1<br />
9 125g butter............................... £1.40<br />
9 120g dried chickpeas......................... 31P<br />
9 200g quinoa............................... £1.20<br />
9 1 lemon................................... £2.32<br />
9 50g ginger root.............................. 50P<br />
9 300g arborio rice......................... £1.19<br />
9 90g parmesan.............................. £3.61<br />
9 2 x Cuore di Bue tomatoes................. £2.49<br />
9 Miscellaneous – olive oil,<br />
spices, salt & pepper................... £1.50<br />
9 Total cost for 5 evening meals<br />
for 2 adults and 2 children..............<br />
£10.70<br />
£2.80<br />
£1.05<br />
£1.90<br />
£57.30<br />
PAPRIKA CHICKEN<br />
DRUMSTICKS WITH COUSCOUS,<br />
PEASHOOTS & ASPARAGUS<br />
INGREDIENTS<br />
For the chicken:<br />
8 chicken drumsticks / 2 tbsp olive oil /<br />
1 tsp smoked paprika / squeeze of lemon<br />
For the couscous:<br />
150g barley couscous / 300g water<br />
or vegetable stock / 1 tbsp olive oil /<br />
1 tsp paprika / 1 tsp smoked paprika /<br />
2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice /<br />
handful of peashoots<br />
For the asparagus:<br />
4 to 8 asparagus spears (depending<br />
on size) / 15g butter / salt & pepper<br />
METHOD<br />
1. Preheat the oven to 220 0 C.<br />
2. Coat the chicken in the olive oil, smoked<br />
paprika, some salt & pepper and<br />
a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.<br />
When the oven is at 220 0 C, put the<br />
chicken in and cook for 40 mins, turning<br />
over halfway through cooking.<br />
3. For the couscous, bring the water<br />
to boil with salt, pepper, olive oil,<br />
and spices. When it’s boiled, squeeze<br />
in the lemon juice.<br />
4. Pour this liquid over the couscous,<br />
stir and cover with a lid to allow the<br />
couscous to steam.<br />
5. Leave for 10 mins, then separate<br />
the grains with a fork.<br />
6. Cook the asparagus to your liking –<br />
I roasted it in a pan with butter, oil,<br />
salt & pepper, then added a splash<br />
of water to cook through. It could<br />
also be steamed for a few minutes<br />
so it is cooked with a bit of a crunch.<br />
7. When everything is ready, finish<br />
the couscous with some chopped<br />
peashoots.<br />
8. Serve the couscous on a large plate,<br />
with chicken and asparagus on top<br />
so everyone can help themselves.<br />
PENNE IN A CARROT<br />
& TOMATO SAUCE<br />
INGREDIENTS<br />
For the carrot and tomato sauce:<br />
330g carrots, rough chunks / olive oil<br />
salt & pepper / 1 onion, finely diced /<br />
4 garlic cloves, finely sliced / 1 tbsp tomato<br />
puree / 400g tin chopped tomatoes /<br />
300g water or vegetable stock<br />
The rest:<br />
400g penne pasta / 1 spring green<br />
(we used cabbage) finely sliced, 20g<br />
butter / water / parmesan to serve<br />
METHOD<br />
1. Preheat the oven to 180 0 C and season<br />
the carrots with salt, pepper & olive oil.<br />
2. Roast in the pre-heated oven for around<br />
20 to 30 mins.<br />
3. Meanwhile, gently cook the onions<br />
and garlic in a saucepan.<br />
4. When they are soft, add the tomato<br />
paste, tinned tomatoes and water.<br />
5. When the carrots are golden and<br />
slightly soft, add to the saucepan.<br />
6. Season with salt & pepper and cover<br />
with a lid. Leave to simmer gently<br />
for around 20 mins.<br />
7. When the sauce is ready, blend until<br />
smooth and leave over a low heat.<br />
8. Bring a pan of water to the boil<br />
and season generously with salt.<br />
When boiling, add the penne pasta.<br />
9. When the pasta is 5 mins away<br />
from being cooked, melt the butter<br />
in another saucepan and add the<br />
cabbage, salt, pepper and a splash<br />
of water. Cook for a few minutes<br />
until the cabbage is soft.<br />
10. When the pasta is cooked (it should<br />
take around 10 mins until al dente<br />
(firm to the bite), drain and add straight<br />
to the sauce. Add some of the pasta<br />
water if the sauce is too thick.<br />
11. Finish the dish with some shaved<br />
parmesan, any herbs or salad you<br />
have to hand (peashoots in this recipe)<br />
and serve with the side of cabbage.<br />
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FOOD & DRINK<br />
VEGAN POTATO & CHICKPEA<br />
CURRY WITH QUINOA<br />
INGREDIENTS<br />
For the potato and chickpea curry:<br />
120g dried chickpeas (soaked overnight<br />
& boiled) / olive oil / 1 onion, finely sliced<br />
/ 4 garlic cloves, minced / 40g ginger,<br />
finely grated / 1 tsp turmeric / 1 tsp<br />
ground cumin / 1 tsp ground coriander /<br />
2 tbsp tomato puree / 400g tin chopped<br />
tomatoes / 300g water or vegetable stock<br />
/ salt & pepper / 700g potatoes (3 medium<br />
sized), medium dice / ½ spring green<br />
(such as cabbage), finely sliced.<br />
For the quinoa:<br />
200g quinoa / 600g water/ 2 tbsp lemon<br />
juice / 2 tbsp olive oil / salt & pepper<br />
METHOD<br />
1. Soak the chickpeas overnight, then boil<br />
in salted water for around 20 minutes<br />
until they start to soften.<br />
2. Add some oil to a saucepan and sweat<br />
the sliced onion, followed by the ginger,<br />
garlic, turmeric, cumin, coriander.<br />
Allow to cook for a few minutes.<br />
3. Next add the tomato paste, tinned<br />
tomatoes, water, salt & pepper<br />
and cover with a lid. Leave to simmer<br />
for 10 mins.<br />
4. Add the potatoes and chickpeas and<br />
leave with the lid on to simmer for<br />
around half an hour until the potatoes<br />
are soft.<br />
5. For the last 5 mins of cooking, stir in the<br />
finely sliced spring greens to the curry.<br />
6. For the quinoa, put the quinoa, water,<br />
lemon juice, olive oil, salt & pepper<br />
in a saucepan and bring to the boil.<br />
7. Turn the heat down to a simmer and<br />
cover with a lid. Leave to cook gently<br />
for around 20 mins until the quinoa<br />
is cooked through.<br />
BAKED COLEY, ROASTED<br />
FENNEL, POTATOES,<br />
TOMATOES & FREEKEH<br />
INGREDIENTS<br />
For the fish, fennel, tomatoes and<br />
potatoes:<br />
1 large fennel bulb, cut into small wedges<br />
/ 400g potatoes, medium sliced / salt<br />
& pepper / olive oil / 2 large tomatoes,<br />
large dice / 2 fillets of coley / 30g butter /<br />
lemon wedges<br />
For the freekeh:<br />
150g freekeh / 1 onion, finely diced /<br />
2 cloves garlic, minced / 1 tsp paprika /<br />
400ml water<br />
METHOD<br />
1. Preheat the oven to 200 0 C.<br />
2. Add the fennel wedges, potato slices,<br />
salt, pepper and a good drizzle of olive oil.<br />
3. Roast for around half an hour, turning<br />
the vegetables over halfway through.<br />
4. For the freekeh, gently cook the diced<br />
onion and minced garlic in a saucepan.<br />
Add the freekeh, paprika and water.<br />
Bring to the boil and then leave to<br />
simmer with a lid on for around 20 mins<br />
until the freekeh is soft.<br />
5. With the vegetables almost cooked<br />
(crispy on the outside and almost<br />
cooked in the middle) , turn the oven<br />
down to 180 0 C and mix in the diced<br />
tomatoes. Lay the fish fillets on top,<br />
add the butter on the fish and place<br />
some lemon wedges on top.<br />
6. Return to the oven and cook for a<br />
further 15 mins until the fish is just<br />
cooked through.<br />
7. To serve, lay the freekeh out on a large<br />
serving plate. Place all the roasted<br />
vegetables over the freekeh and lay<br />
the fish and lemon wedges on top.<br />
8. To garnish, I blitzed up some pea shoots<br />
with olive oil, lemon and salt to make a<br />
dressing, then drizzled it over the top.<br />
BEETROOT RISOTTO<br />
INGREDIENTS<br />
For the Beetroot Puree & Garnish:<br />
3 medium beetroots (around 400g), medium<br />
dice / 100ml beetroot cooking liquid<br />
For the Risotto:<br />
1 Tbsp olive oil / 30g butter / 1 onion, finely<br />
diced / 3 garlic cloves, minced / 300g<br />
arborio rice / 800g water or vegetable<br />
stock / salt & pepper / 70g parmesan,<br />
grated / fresh herbs or salad to garnish<br />
For the roasted greens side:<br />
1 spring green, cut in half lengthways /<br />
20g butter / 1 tsp olive oil<br />
METHOD<br />
1. First, cover the diced beetroots with<br />
water, season with salt and pepper, then<br />
bring to the boil. Leave to simmer for<br />
around 20 mins until cooked through.<br />
2. Drain the beetroot, saving 100ml of the<br />
liquid. Blend 2/3 of the cooked beetroot<br />
with this liquid until it is a lovely smooth<br />
puree. Set aside the puree and remaining<br />
cooked beetroot.<br />
3. Gently cook the onions and garlic in the<br />
butter and olive oil until very soft. Season<br />
with salt and pepper. Add the rice, mix it in<br />
and toast for another few mins.<br />
4. Now, gradually add in the water or<br />
vegetable stock a little at a time. Keep<br />
stirring the rice until the liquid is almost<br />
absorbed before adding more liquid.<br />
5. While the rice is cooking, warm up the<br />
butter and olive oil for the greens. Put the<br />
greens with the core side down to get a<br />
lovely caramelised colour. Turn over to<br />
brown the other side, then add a splash<br />
of water and lid to cook through. Season.<br />
6. When you’re about to add the last liquid<br />
to the risotto, stir in the beetroot puree<br />
to allow the rice to soak up that flavour.<br />
7. Finish by stirring in most of the parmesan.<br />
8. Just before the risotto is ready, roast the<br />
remaining diced beetroot in the oven or a<br />
frying pan. Garnish the dish with this, the<br />
parmesan and some fresh herbs or salad<br />
leaves. Serve with the roasted greens. •<br />
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FLOUR POWER<br />
How sourdough bread supported the nation and blossomed in our streets<br />
Words by Katrina Mirpuri. Photos by Mischa Haller.<br />
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FOOD & DRINK<br />
Opening pages and this page: Crouch End’s new addition - bakery Sourdough Sophia.<br />
This page: Sophia Sutton-Jones in her bakery.<br />
No one could have guessed what 2020 had in store for us. The<br />
Covid-19 pandemic sent the nation into a frenzy and we saw<br />
everything from toilet roll shortages to empty shop shelves over<br />
the course of lockdown. The irrational need to stockpile soon<br />
fizzled out but when the dust settled, we found ourselves short<br />
of something far more valuable: flour and yeast.<br />
Londoners took to Facebook groups to ask, “Does anyone<br />
know where I can buy some flour?” Braver folk knocked on their<br />
neighbours’ doors to ask for the sought-after white stuff. Why<br />
were we endlessly searching for flour when the world was going<br />
into meltdown? It turns out, when times get tough, we turn to the<br />
simple things. We rolled up our sleeves, got our hands dirty and<br />
made delicious home-baked sourdough bread.<br />
Sourdough is not a new phenomenon; however, it certainly<br />
entered a new level of fame over lockdown. There’s always been<br />
a demand for the stuff, but there’s a much deeper reason why<br />
we took such an interest in it during the pandemic. The fiveday<br />
process of making sourdough is lengthy and needs close<br />
attention. It requires you to create an ingredient called a starter,<br />
which you monitor and feed daily like a household pet. The weeklong<br />
project is attractive for those looking for a new hobby, and<br />
its calming qualities have offered a sense of therapy to those<br />
who usually live a fast-paced life.<br />
East Finchley resident Ines Lanza wanted to focus on the<br />
peaceful perks of baking, so she began an initiative called Mindful<br />
Sourdough at the start of lockdown. She offered free online classes<br />
for those looking to learn the craft, whilst encouraging them to<br />
practise mindfulness along the way. “I think during lockdown many<br />
people wanted to learn a new activity,” Ines explains. “Baking<br />
sourdough was the new frenzy and it allowed people to create their<br />
own starter from scratch and keep it indefinitely, and learn how to<br />
bake bread in a simple yet nutritious way.”<br />
It takes patience to let dough ferment properly, an activity<br />
which encourages mindfulness. “Some bread-making was taking<br />
up to 24 hours before being ready,” Ines adds. “The application<br />
of time was essential for the mindful process. It’s also a very<br />
calming activity.”<br />
You can’t rush the sourdough process. It forces you to<br />
slow down. Similar activities such as knitting, crocheting and<br />
gardening also gained traction over lockdown for similar reasons,<br />
and many found themselves feeling grounded after participating<br />
in such tasks. Whether it’s banana bread, sourdough or focaccia,<br />
chances are you had a go at making some form of bread at some<br />
point. Yes, it was popular before lockdown, but it appears that<br />
the demand for consuming and making sourdough increased<br />
significantly during the pandemic.<br />
Michelle Eshkeri from East Finchley’s renowned Margot Bakery<br />
recalls the increase in interest during the peak of lockdown, telling<br />
<strong>Village</strong> <strong>Raw</strong>: “We sold many bags of flour and gave away more pots<br />
of sourdough starter than I could possibly count in 2020. I was<br />
also being tagged in people’s posts using recipes from my book.<br />
“For the first time, a lot of people had the time to attempt the<br />
more challenging sourdough sweet doughs that take two to four<br />
days to make. It was one of the really lovely parts of a challenging<br />
year, to see people embracing sourdough and enjoying it so much.”<br />
The community spirit that arose from baking sourdough was<br />
unforgettable. People exchanged baking tips online, and it even<br />
allowed many local bakers to grow their businesses commercially.<br />
Take Crouch End’s hottest new bakery, Sourdough Sophia, for<br />
example. The bakery was born after owner Sophia Sutton-Jones<br />
decided to raise funds via Kickstarter following the tremendous<br />
success of her sourdough home deliveries during lockdown.<br />
She was able to secure a spot in the heart of Crouch End for<br />
the premises, and her bakery now supplies locals with an array<br />
of breads, sweet treats and innovative sourdough creations.<br />
People are happy to queue outside the bakery in the morning and<br />
it has often sold out before midday. This is proof that despite the<br />
popularity of commercial chains selling sourdough, people still<br />
yearn for a warm, freshly baked loaf of bread to start their day.<br />
On her success, Sophia says, “I pinch myself every day that<br />
this has finally happened. It was my dream since I was a little<br />
girl, so to see my store come to life has been one of the nicest<br />
experiences in my life.”<br />
Despite sourdough seemingly being everywhere, it turns out<br />
that it isn’t always the real deal. Sophia clarifies: “Sourdough<br />
should only contain flour, water and salt. To use it as a trendy<br />
description for yeast-packed, fast-leavened breads made in<br />
factories or even filled with additives is something that has given<br />
sourdough a bad name.” Sophia says she is true to the meaning of<br />
sourdough. With no nasties or additives, each loaf is made fresh<br />
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by hand every day. “It’s exactly as it should be. No factory, no huge<br />
machinery or stabilisers, just true bread the old-fashioned way.”<br />
Food trends come and go, but it’s important to recognise that<br />
sourdough is far from a craze, as it has been in demand for many<br />
years. Margot Bakery in East Finchley has supplied the likes of<br />
Panzer’s Deli, La Fromagerie, Ham restaurant and Spice Deli.<br />
Newer bakers are learning to utilise their skills for creative<br />
outlets. North London local Jo Venegas Meza was a newbie to<br />
sourdough last year but she now knows how to batch bake and<br />
has two online outlets to share her work. Her latest project<br />
@theliterarybakery brings a scene from a novel to life using a loaf<br />
of bread as a canvas. “At the beginning we were baking maybe once<br />
or twice a week and buying the bread the rest of the week,” Jo<br />
says, “but soon we started to bake so often that we never bought<br />
bread again!” Her other profile @SourJough is solely focused on<br />
sourdough, and showcases breads from Chile to London.<br />
Over lockdown, sourdough has proven to be one of the most<br />
welcoming and useful skills to have acquired. A small amount of<br />
flour power has created new space for creativity and business,<br />
and it shows no sign of slowing down.<br />
•<br />
You can find out more by visiting: www.margotbakery.co.uk, www.sourdoughsophia.co.uk<br />
and on Instagram: @mindful_sourdough / @margotbakery / @sourdoughsophia /<br />
@sour_jough / @theliterarybakery<br />
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WELLBEING<br />
THE VIRTUES OF LIVING WITH<br />
WONDERFUL HERBS<br />
Ola Nwakodo is a medical herbalist based in Muswell Hill, and in the<br />
coming issues will be offering guidance and answering your questions.<br />
Words by Ola Nwakodo. Photo by David Reeve.<br />
“Herbalism is based on relationship – relationship between plant<br />
and human, plant and planet, human and planet. Using herbs in<br />
the healing process means taking part in an ecological cycle. This<br />
offers us the opportunity consciously to be present in the living,<br />
vital world of which we are part; to invite wholeness and our world<br />
into our lives through awareness of the remedies being used…”<br />
Wendell Berry, novelist, poet and environmental activist.<br />
Like good nutrition, herbalism is a way of life. It is the people’s<br />
medicine, it’s been around since humans sought out food and<br />
healing from the plant kingdom. Our use of herbal medicine as<br />
a way to treat illness or enhance the quality of our lives is well<br />
documented. It’s the inspiration and origin of more than 50% of<br />
drugs in clinical use in the world.<br />
We live in close communion with the natural world - plants,<br />
the food web, the soil, the water web and life all around us. Plants<br />
give out more than they take in. I feel privileged and grateful to<br />
live together in community.<br />
One of the first things I do in the morning is to make a brew<br />
with fresh lemons. This tea awakens, flushes the body with<br />
antioxidants and prepares the digestive system for its daily<br />
work. A variety of blended teas keep me hydrated, bright, calm,<br />
and clear-headed throughout the day. They also feed my entire<br />
system. Herbs reach each and every cell in the body - nourishing,<br />
tonifying organs and strengthening the whole person.<br />
As a practising herbalist, herbal medicine is my instant goto.<br />
For sudden headaches I reach for cups of wood betony or<br />
meadowsweet tea. For tension, stressed nerves, a troubled mind,<br />
pain, cuts or bruises and sleeplessness, there’s a variety of flower<br />
herbs, roots, berries, fruits or bark remedies.<br />
In the course of a week I will see clients living with diverse<br />
conditions, some complex, others relatively straightforward<br />
health issues. Each consultation is usually 45 minutes. It is useful<br />
to have a diagnosis at hand; however, it is the person whom I have<br />
been taught to primarily care for. I may ask: what, if anything, has<br />
led to their health condition; how are the presenting health issues<br />
affecting them, are they worsening and why; what symptoms are<br />
most concerning or life-debilitating; are they eating well? I’ll check<br />
what medications they’ve been prescribed and at what dosage.<br />
Do they need further investigation, and what herbs, foods or any<br />
other viable strategies could support recovery?<br />
Some clients are on medications but are feeling worse. Perhaps<br />
they are experiencing nutrient depletion due to prescribed drugs or<br />
side effects are making them ill. Herbal medicine gives value here.<br />
For example, prescribing potassium-rich herbs or a supplement,<br />
such as CoQ10 for a client on a certain type of blood pressure<br />
medicine, can change a challenging health picture.<br />
Where clients’ lives are stressful and they still need to push<br />
through, adaptogenic plants, adrenal tonics, nutritious and relaxing<br />
herbs could help the body bear up and the load feel lighter. These<br />
can be dispensed as capsules, tablets, teas and tinctures.<br />
As I get older and continue to be exposed to stress, I am<br />
more mindful of my health: my regular intake now includes plants<br />
that support bone, brain, heart, and circulatory health. Even in<br />
accidents, herbal medicine can be an ally. I took a tumble recently<br />
and hurt my big toe. The pain was excruciating but so was the wait<br />
for treatment or care. X-rays revealed no breakages. I was still in<br />
agony. I was put on the foot clinic’s waiting list and told to take<br />
ibuprofen until the pain and inflammation went away.<br />
Bearing in mind that the National Institute for Health and<br />
Clinical Excellence recommends against the extended use of such<br />
pain medicines, I went home, made a healing salve with yarrow,<br />
plantain, St John’s wort, marigold flowers, frankincense essential<br />
oil, magnesium and CBD, and poultices with bran, lobelia and<br />
Jamaican dogwood. Months later, still no contact from the hospital.<br />
Plants provide us with vital nutrition and medicine. Extending<br />
our relationship with them can only enrich our lives. A guiding aim<br />
of my practice is to restore herbs in the home, as food, as first aid<br />
and as preventative medicine.<br />
•<br />
In the next issue I will be answering your questions. Please email hello@villageraw.com<br />
with anything you’d like answered.<br />
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VILLAGE GREEN<br />
PRIORY COMMON ORCHARD<br />
Photo by David Reeve.<br />
With a planning application for the destruction of<br />
the existing building, and the construction of a new<br />
nursery and residential building over three floors high,<br />
this set of protest chairs appeared in our much-loved<br />
community garden. They read, from left to right:<br />
Exploring humankind’s<br />
connection with nature<br />
• Save our orchard, Love from the people of N8 N10<br />
• 3.5 blocks is too high!<br />
• S.O.O (save our orchard) Without light it will die<br />
• We u just the way you are
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