Posted in personal, growing challenge, locavore, gardens, eat local, canning on Sep 17th, 2008
I think I’m bonking. Or for those of you that don’t mountain bike for fun, I think I’ve hit the wall.
I’m so sick of green beans that there’s a gallon in the fridge that have started to mold and another 2 gallons that I’m not interested in eating, freezing or pickling. I think I’m going […]
Posted in growing challenge, one local summer, locavore, eat local on Aug 31st, 2008
Hanging in the barn is a collection of onions all braided and ready for winter. From left to right are walla walla sweets, red burgermasters and copras. The walla wallas got braided and hung first and my skills got better for the other two varieties.
Also the walla wallas were braided into smaller bunches so that […]
Posted in growing challenge, gardens on Aug 25th, 2008
Pardon me as I share some garden photos with you. I’m not trying to be all “look at what I grew” but at the same time I want people to realize that the garden is an ever evolving environment and that even a first time gardener like myself can have success. Plus, I just found […]
Posted in one local summer, growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 24th, 2008
What do you do with a glut of snap beans and cauliflower? Why add a few freshly pulled carrots and some languishing summer squash and make sweet summer pickles. These mark the end of our non-cucumber pickles for the year as the tally has gotten a bit ridiculous. It’s going to take us two years […]
Posted in growing challenge, gardens on Aug 21st, 2008
I had a moment tonight standing in the garden. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re in college and you show up to take a final and realize that you forgot to go to class or study all semester. And just when you really start to panic you wake up and realize […]
Posted in growing challenge, one local summer, locavore, gardens, eat local on Aug 10th, 2008
Today we pulled the Walla Walla Sweet onions. Last Sunday I knocked over the rest of the tops and then let them sit for a week to finish off, per Steve Solomon’s advice. I intended to pull them today and spread them on a tarp by the barn to cure, but we’ve been having unpredictable […]
Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens, EatLocalChallenge, eat local on Aug 7th, 2008
Sick of gardening posts yet? Sorry about it, I’m a bit brain dead right now as we catch up with the garden and I immerse myself in my new job (day 4 tomorrow).
That photo above? That’s just shy of 4 pounds of bush beans. And I’d say it’s about 20% of what we’re going to […]
