CSA Week #9

CSA Week #9: Swiss chard, carrots, butternut squash, kale, celery, lettuce, peppers, eggplant.

Made some pizza with the rest of the golden tomato sauce we canned.

Living my best life -- podcast and tomato harvest.

End of the Summer

When the plants start going to seed is when you know the season is starting to wind down.  They are preparing to make sure their ancestors live on next year.  Here is an artichoke going to seed, first with it's purple-ish flowering on top.

Some bread M. made:

Summer's swan song -- eating watermelon...

More homemade pasta with roasted garden vegetables.

My garden, porch, and daily companion (aside from M.).  :)

CSA Week #8

This week's CSA share: kale, lettuces, peppers, tomatoes, beans, eggplant, carrots.

Scrambled eggs from our chickens, microgreens grow by me, and grape tomatoes from the garden.  Yum!

Got all the fall lettuces in this week as well -- always planning ahead!

This is golden beet juice -- beet is good for detoxifying the liver.

Also on the menu this week was some homemade egg pasta with a golden tomato sauce we made from our golden tomatoes.  This was a meal to remember, for sure.

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.

CSA Week #4

CSA Week #4 Share: kale, collards, cabbage, celery, swiss chard, lettuce, onion, and microgreens.

I also have enough flowers coming up that I can play around with and try my hand at arranging bouquets.  I still have a lot of learn, but I was pretty happy with this one I did on the fly.

Even though these tomatoes are "early girls," they are still not ripening!  I am so looking forward to tomato season...

As growers, we also support other local farms and right now we source all our herbal medicinal needs from Fields Without Fences, right here in Frenchtown.