CSA Week #7

Our CSA this week included kale, beets, beans, ground cherries, carrots, tomatoes, eggplant, and cantaloupe.

We've also been playing around more with making bouquets with the limited flowers we have growing in the garden this year.

Also - I grew these ARTICHOKES from seed!  To be able to grow my favorite vegetable is just incredibly gratifying!

CSA Week #6

I can never decide if watermelons are worth the amount of space they take up.... until, of course, we eat them at the end of summer.  Then I'm convinced all over again about how delicious they are and worth their space in the garden.

Cara is always up for hanging out in the garden with me.

The ground cherries this year have been super plentiful -- it's amazing how much only three plants produce!  In my opinion, they are best covered in chocolate.

There's nothing like the morning in the gardens.

In other exciting news, our fig tree is producing!  We may actually get to eat some homegrown figs this year!

CSA Week #5

I'm still so happy that even though it's mid-July, we can have so many good greens!

This week's share: lettuce, kale, rainbow chard, French radishes, beets, baby arugula, onion, and potted succulent.

As an experiment we are also growing leeks and potatoes this year.  So we had to pull some from the field for sampling and decided to go with potato-leek soup (my favorite).

Also in big exciting homestead news -- we bought a juicer and I have been in all my glory juicing all kinds of concoctions from the garden.  It was a pretty affordable masticating juicer from Amazon (only around $100), and so far I'm pretty pleased.

I've also fallen in love with celosia.  Be still my heart.