Welcome to the Travelling carrot. The Carrot is a Vegetarian Restaurant guide. If you are looking for a vegan, or a vegetarian restaurant you have come to the right place. We have over a Thousand vegetarian restaurants worldwide and we are imputting more daily.
We add monthly vegetarian news, and the latests on how to help our fellow animals! as well as vegetarian restaurants, health food stores in your area, and abroad. If all else fails, check out our carrot shop, powered by Amazon.com. Its all organic, all the time! Our site is easy to use, and fun to check out. Place your pictures of your friends eating at your favorite restaurant whithin our photo gallery, swap links with us, Get active by choosing one of our motivational articles and adding your name to the cause, Or show a meat eater what he is really eating by clicking "meet your meat" in our veg news section. The goal of this site is to allow fellow vegetarians to rate the restaurants that they have visited.
This information will allow vegetarians to choose a restaurant that will have at least some vegetarian dishes when travelling abroad .
I am sure that like me, when travelling to a new country you might spend hours walking the pavement, surveying different menus outside of foreign restaurants and sometimes we are left at the mercy of our foreign dictionaries hoping "Reis De Veau" or sweet bread, is actually bread!!!
This website will aim to take the guess work out and bring the enjoyment of good healthy food back into travelling. But, for this I need your help, I am looking for vegetarians, like you, who will rate the restaurant you go to, whether it be in your home town, or abroad. Look for our new red background on our list of restaurants. It means that the restaurant and its information was confirmed. This week carrot thoughts.... Finally a vegetarian spa!!!!!  About compost...... we all want to do things that are better for the enviroment and for the future of our children. but getting out there and turning thought into action can be challenging. This week The Carrot has decided to begin composting, trying to get closer to our goal of cero garbage. we already recycle, even when the garbage company does not take what we want to recycle! Here in england they dont accept cardboard, which is the biggest contributor to our garbage pile, and so my husband is good enough to go every other week and place it in a recycling center among other things the garbage man decided not to take. But back to composting, I went out a got a large compost bin, which looks like a garbage bin with no bottom, and began my adventure with rotting garbage. Hope this helps, and until next time... Travel long, eat greens and BE ORANGE!!! -------------- Composting is not just for gardeners - it helps the environment too. Every year thousands of tonnes of kitchen and garden waste are thrown in the dustbin, which usually ends up in expensive, unsightly and environmentally damaging landfill sites. Up to 35% of household waste is organic and suitable for home composting. Simply put it in a compost bin and leave it to breakdown for a few months. The end result is a rich nutritious crumbly compost which can be dug into the garden to improve soil structure. It can also be used as a mulch to suppress weeds and improve drainage Composting is an entirely natural process carried out by worms and a myriad of tiny creatures, many of them too small to be seen by the naked eye. Composting Tips Site your compost bin in a sunny spot if possible. The plastic will absorb the sun’s UV rays and heat up the compost. To get the compost started you can use an activator, which helps speed up the composting process. We recommend ‘Organica’, a natural liquid which has a good reputation among gardening experts. Good aeration is required to produce the best compost. To help aerate your bin you can add scrunched up newspaper which creates air pockets or alternatively invest in a compost aerator which is specially designed to reach deep into the compost bin to mix and aerate it. It is essential to have a good mix of waste material in your composter to aid decomposition, ie. grass, paper, leaves, fruit & vegetable peelings. Add the different types of material in layers - approximately 3” to 6” deep. Get yourself a kitchen caddy to collect scraps. It saves time and the effort of having to nip out to the compost bin every time you prepare a meal.Hot Composting Recipes Composting is often viewed as a process rather like cooking. The following recipes recommend a mix of ingredients that will result in the very best quality compost. In time you will learn which ingredients work best for yourself. The idea is to get a good balance of brown carbon rich materials (i.e. leaves and wood shavings) and nitrogen rich materials (grass clippings, weeds, food scraps). Recipe 1 2 parts dry leaves 2 parts straw or wood shavings 1 part manure 1 part fresh grass clippings 1 Part fresh garden weeds 1 part food scraps Recipe 2 2 parts dry leaves 1 part fresh grass clippings 1 part fresh garden leaves 1 part food scraps Condiments Any of the following will add nutrients to your compost mix. These materials are not necessary but can be beneficial to the process. Sprinkle like salt the condiments onto your compost. Garden soil is full of micro-organisms - half shovel maximum. Too much will slow the process down. Finished compost is also full of micro-organisms - half shovel maximum. Again, too much will slow the process down. Bone / blood meal - nitrogen activators. Use sparingly. Fireplace ashes are high in potash and carbon. Can be mixed in when you have a lot of nitrogen rich material (e.g. grass). Composting Trouble Shooting Problem : Compost is not getting hot enough to break down material Reason: Compost mix not right Solution: Add more soft sappy nitrogen-rich activating materials (e.g. grass) or worms or another activator Problem: Composter slows down in winter Reason: Heat loving bacteria slow down Solution: Activators in the compost heap will warm the bacteria into action Problem: Compost heap dries out in summer Reason: Evaporation of water due to hot weather Solution: Water until compost is moist. Keep lid on composter Problem: Flies Larvae feed on the vegetation. They are okay but you don't want too many, Avoid using pesticides. Solution:Cover the pile with paper and bury kitchen scraps Problem: Unpleasant smell Reason: No air getting to compost Solution:Aerate the compost using fork or aeration stick Problem: Wet and smelly Reason: Too much green material such as grass Solution: Put in less green material. It must be mixed with other materials. |
