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Guest blogger: Andy Hamilton is an expert on home grown food, wild food and brewing. He has foraged for The https://www.canadagoosesale.info Eden Project, at literary festivals, end of the world festivals and eaten his way through much of Bristol’s wild flora and fauna as well touring the country in search of the great British homebrew.
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Comment number 6. At 09:42 17th Oct 2010, MalcolmTucker wrote: Andy any chance of your recipe for autumn flower champagne.
