April: What's in season? - The Derbyshire Benevolent Trust

At the start of the year, we sent out a membership survey to help shape the Derbyshire Benevolent Trust’s Healthy Lifestyles project. An overwhelming number of you responded, and reported a strong interest in and understanding of health and wellness issues. We know that this is an area which is important to DBT members, so we will continue to provide articles to inspire you to live your best life. We also found that a significant proportion of members would like to be a part of a community growing project organised by the Trust.

When the survey was published, it was hoped that coronavirus restrictions would have been lifted early enough for us to break ground on a community garden project, but that has not been the case. Instead, for 2021, we have set the DBT community growing project in motion by providing members who registered their interest with some seeds to grow at home, and we will be sharing their growing progress throughout the year.

If you’re already a keen vegetable gardener or just getting started with your vegetable patch, you can join in the fun by sharing pictures of what you are up to with us at admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com

What can you grow in April?

April is your last chance to sow these seeds, otherwise you will need to buy plants from a garden centre:

Tomatoes
Chillies
Aubergines

April is also the perfect time to start sowing these seeds indoors or in a greenhouse:

Courgettes
Winter squash
Cucumber
Leeks
Lettuces
Peas

And it is already warm enough to sow these seeds directly outside:

Beetroot
Radishes
Carrots

What’s in season now?

We are still in the “hungry gap” – the time of year when last year’s produce has run out and this year’s is only just beginning to grow – but April is the time when some really delicious foods start to become available.

Rhubarb

Here in Derbyshire, we are not too far away from the famous Rhubarb Triangle in West Yorkshire, where they specialise in producing forced rhubarb. Forced rhubarb is delicious stewed down on its own, on top of pancakes or as part of a crumble for a treat!

Asparagus

Locally grown asparagus only has a short, spring-time season so grab some quickly! I always like to split the spears in two and griddle them until cooked through.

Cauliflower

Packed with a wide array of vitamins to help support your body, cauliflower is abundant at the moment and I don’t think you can beat a bit of cauliflower cheese on the side of your roast dinner.

Kale and purple sprouting broccoli

These are two fantastic vegetables for your health – purple sprouting broccoli is full of vitamins A and C, and kale contains potassium to help maintain a healthy blood pressure level. Make sure you steam them to get the highest benefit from them, and the best taste!

Broad beans

Broad beans are just coming into season and, along with wild garlic, are the star of the recipe we are sharing with you this month. Some people hate the taste of broad beans, but that’s because they don’t double pod! Make sure you take them out of their slightly bitter white shells too when using them in dishes like risottos or in pasta.

Nettles and wild garlic

The days are getting longer and warmer and now, as you get outside for your daily exercise, you can also bring home your dinner! New nettles and wild garlic are abundant at this time of year and make a delicious soup or salad. Just make sure you forage responsibly by only taking what you need, never pulling the roots of a plant up, and giving everything a really good wash when you get home.

Don’t forget to check out this month’s recipe to incorporate the best of this month’s produce into your diet. This time we’re making a broad bean and pea risotto with wild garlic pesto.

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To do this please follow the instructions in the below links, by choosing your mail provider and adding the email: “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” to your whitelist.

AOL

Add the “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” to your AOL address book:

Click the “Mail Options” menu and select “Address Book”.
Inside the “Address Book” window, click the “Add” button.
Inside the “Address Card for New Contact” window cut and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the “Other E-Mail” field.
Make our From address the “Primary E-Mail” address by checking the associated check box to the right of it.
Click the “Save” button.

If the mailing is in your SPAM Folder, you can open the email and click the “This Is Not Spam” button.

Gmail

Add the From address you want to receive mailings from to your Gmail Contacts List:

Click “Contacts” along the left side of any Gmail page.
Click “Create Contact”.
Copy and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the primary email address dialog box.
Click “Save”.

If the mailing is in your SPAM folder, check the box next to the mailing and click the “Not Spam” button along the top.

Hotmail/Outlook/Live

Add the From address you want to receive mailings from to your Hotmail Safe List:

Open your mailbox and click “Options” (upper right hand corner).
Click the “Junk E-Mail Protection” link.
Select the “Safe List” link.
Copy and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the dialog box titled “Type an address or domain”.
Click the “Add” button next to the dialog box.

If the mailing is in your “Junk E-Mail Folder”, open the email and click the “Not Junk” button.

You should also check that the mailing’s email address is not in your Blocked Senders list. You can find your Blocked Senders list by following the directions above and going to “Blocked Senders List” instead of “Safe List”. If you see the mailing’s from address on this list, select it and click the Remove button.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Add the From address you want to receive mailings from to your Thunderbird Address Book and configure your Junk Mail Controls to white list your address book.

Add an address into your Personal Address Book:

Click the “Address Book” button.
Make sure the Personal Address Book is highlighted.
Click the “New Card” button.
Under the “Contact” tab, copy and paste “admin@derbyshirebenevolenttrust.com” into the Email dialog box.
Click “OK”.

White list your Personal Address Book:

From the main drop down menu, select “Tools –< Junk Mail Controls..."
This will launch the Junk Mail Controls window that has two tabs: Settings and Adaptive Filter
Under the Settings tab, update the “White Lists” module by selecting Personal Address Book from the pull down menu and then check mark the box next to “Do not mark messages as junk mail”.
Click “OK”.

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From the Edit drop down menu, select “Message Filters”.
Click “New”, and give the new filter a name (e.g. “Whitelist”).
Change the drop down on the left to “sender” and the one in the middle to “is”.
Copy and paste username@domain.com into the box on the right.
Make the bottom two drop downs “Move to folder” and “Inbox”.
Click “OK”.
Make sure that your new filter is located at the top of the Message Filter list so it is run before any spam filter.

Outlook 2003/2007

Add the address you want to receive mailings from to your Safe Senders list:

On the Tools menu, click “Options”.
On the Preferences tab, click “Junk E-mail”.
On the Safe Senders tab, click “Add”.
In the Add address box, copy and paste in username@domain.com and click OK.

If you are using a different version of Outlook you can add the mailers From address to your Address Book. This can be done by opening the email, right clicking the From address, and selecting “Add To Contacts”. You can also access your Address Book via the tools drop down menu.

Yahoo

Set up a filter to redirect the mailing you want to receive in your inbox:

Open your mailbox and click on “Mail Options” (upper right hand corner).
Select “Filters” under the Management column.
Click the “Add” button on the Filters page.
In the “From header:” row, make the drop down “contains” and put the mailer’s from address username@domain.com in the box.
At the bottom of the page Click the “Choose Folder” pull down menu and select “Inbox”.
Click the “Add Filter” button.

If the mailing is in your Yahoo Bulk Folder open the email and click the “Not Spam” button. You should also check that the mailing’s email address is not in your “Blocked Addresses” list. You can find your “Blocked Addresses” list by clicking “Mail Options” and then clicking the “Blocked Addresses” link under the Spam column. If you see the mailing’s from address on this list, select it and click the “Remove Block” button.

Others

The most common way to whitelist an address is to add it to your address book, white list, or safe list. There is no universal way to whitelist an address, so if this is not an option, you will have to consult the help section associated with your email application. They should have instructions on how to whitelist an address there.

April: What’s in season?