From Plot to Plate
Summer Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Shine!”
Sunshine on a plate tastes great!
Once a month, and more often if I can make it, I help at a local allotment on a plot set aside for women to garden together and grow food.
Lovingly managed by a community of seasoned landscape gardeners, who encourage other local ‘gals’ to get their hands dirty, The Ladies at the Plot is a year-round community project that gets down in the dirt through the winter months — think bobble hats, muddy boots, hard-working spades, a cosy shed, wood-burning stove, steaming hot tea and delicious home-made cakes.
Fast forward six months and TL@TP become taste champions of the home-grown and the hand–made tenderly gathering, making, and sharing food on the plot’s long wooden trestle table that sits underneath a sweet-smelling honeysuckle arch throughout the summer months.
The weekly rallying call to bring a dish to share with fellow plotters never fails to deliver moreish tasty morsels—however random the contribution. Imagine coconut dahl, fresh hummus, avocados, wild rice, falafel, vintage cheeses, damson chutney, olives, and sourdough.
Next, throw in the mix whatever crop is ripe for picking on the day — think kale, rainbow chard, courgette — stir-fried on the spot — not to mention an array of magnificent tomatoes, salad leaves, and figs. One week it’s raspberries and cream, and the next, rhubarb and custard!
Honestly, the tastes are beyond delicious, all daisy fresh and seasoned with love.
The collective effort makes summer lunch at the plot a must-have meal ticket for savvy foodies- because it’s food that shines.
For more fun and compelling six-word stories don’t miss Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Penny Grubb, K. Barrett, B.R. Shenoy, David Acaster, pockett dessert, Jason Edmunds, Denise Darby, CARMEN F MICSA, and of course Mary Chang Story Writer, editor in chief the @six-word-photo-story-challenge publication.
Do you have a “shine” story?
To take part, check out the SWPSC prompt for July/August — the theme for summer is “Shine.”
