Sustainable Eats

I have a million pictures to post from the garden but I need to get to bed tonight so hopefully I can resize them and get them up tomorrow.
It’s of course the millions of zuchini month but I’m not sick of them yet. Tonight I sauteed them in garlic then added fresh tomatoes, basil & [...]

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So, so remiss on posts lately…summer is here in full force with all it’s watering requirements, putting food up and busy trying not to miss summer.
We are preparing for several shortish trips and of course it’s looking like all my efforts on the tomatoes will end up going to the neighbors because true to form [...]

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Here it is not quite the middle of July and we have EARS OF CORN. That’s right, not just knee high stalks but EARS of corn. Wacky!

Tonight just for grins I took my spade and carefully dug through the outer edge of one of the burlap bags and found this little beauty. [...]

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Here we are not quite 3 months into this. Around April 23 I planted the first things in the new beds. Here is a before picture taken:

And after, about 10 weeks later:

Soon to be eating artichokes:

Carrots:

Bell Peppers (and jalapenos) are almost ready to salsa:

We’ve been eating the beets and harvested the last of [...]

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A quick apology for the lack of posts lately – We’ve been entertaining, had a slew of birthdays, putting up food that is coming ripe, lack of school for the kiddos since it’s summer time and I’ve been very busy experimenting with some new things.
I hope very soon to be doing some posts [...]

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Less then two weeks ago I severely pruned the tomato suckers and left the bushes looking scrawny. I was afraid I had given them a bad haircut and taken off too much of their lush green glory. However, I am happy to report amazing things.
The bushes are back and bigger, lusher, greener then [...]

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We’ve had our chickens about 8 weeks now I think, give or take a few in either direction. They are charming, always amusing and great for kids. I never expected them to be so gentle or so entertaining and when they start laying the eggs will be a huge bonus for us.

We are [...]

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I went to the farmer’s market for the first time in many weeks and had a great conversation with Wayne, founder of the amazing Rockridge Orchards, which is always the highlight of my farmer’s market trip.
I’ve been watching the apple trees for some time now. I put them in as sticks this [...]

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I’ve been completely crazed lately with little time for blogging. My fussy & reflux baby online store has been exploding with action at a time when so many things have finally come into season. I’ve been busy putting up rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, cherries and peas. Finally – fruits again!
We’ve also had a [...]

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We started this journey on January 1 by stopping buying food from the grocery store cold turkey. It’s been 6 months now and we are smack in the middle of summer. We are just over the solstice (which certainly means more to me as a grocery gardener then it ever has before) but [...]

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