Download Our Frugal Summer in Charente: An Expat's Kitchen Garden Journal: Sarah Jane's Travel Memoir Series, Book 3 AudioBook Free
Meet Sarah Jane, a female with a reputation for culinary catastrophe, who will try to keep her family fed in challenging circumstances in rural France. Frugal living had not been area of the plan when they showed up from Australia to attempt the renovation of any quaint cottage in the Charente. However, when life threw them a curveball, the challenge was set: How to survive in France with hardly any money and two Australian cattle dogs. The answer arrived in the form of five chickens, four ducks and a vegetable garden! The frugal plan was to save lots of money at all possible - to allow any money they could earn to be invested into carrying on the reconstruction of the cottage. In true "good life" style, Sarah Jane attacks this challenge at once by keeping some small livestock and switching a garden that resembled a meadow into a French "potager," or kitchen garden. The French traditions of using produce using their "potagers" is renowned for enabling families to generate foods that are healthy, affordable, and simple. You will find 31 formulas for a number of food and beverages included in a month-by month-account of how they transformed a neglected garden into a frugal yet fruitful expat kitchen garden.
