The newcomer this week is celeriac, or celery-root. The leaves are like very strong-flavoured celery, good for making soup stock. The enlarged “root” is really the hypocotyl (How about that! Thanks, Wikipedia!), growing above the soil level, but with all those weird-looking roots anchoring it to the earth. Strange as it looks, it tastes wonderful, [...]
Archive > September 2009
Harvest notes for September 24
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Well I’m just kidding of course, although time does fly. How about that, end of September already? Kids are in school, horses’ fur coat is starting to thicken (except that heart-shaped patch people keep shaving on his rear). Pumpkins are showing their lovely heads through the thick [...]
Harvest notes September 21
We had frost on the weekend, and the garden became brown overnight. In the circle of seasons, the first frost mostly feels like a sharp corner. It’s lights out for many of the plants (all of the heat-loving squash, tomatoes, peppers), and the aroma of the garden turns to fall, to earth and compost. I [...]
Harvest notes September 17
Joël is still out of the picture on harvest days, although his back is getting better s-l-o-w-l-y… and he did manage to put together the little bundles of oregano and thyme. Many thanks to Catou and Jean-François for shouldering the load! These are the last of the orange carrots from the “backup” garden, so we [...]
Harvest notes September 13
Greetings on this crisp, and blustery, Fall morning! Harvest days are a little different since Joël’s back troubles – which he describes as someone holding a nail into his back and pushing it in progressively during the day. Ouchy! But on the up side, with Kamé in school, it’s much easier for me to be [...]
Harvest notes for Sept. 10
I caught a glimpse of a wild turkey & offspring yesterday morning, strolling through the greenhouse. Not so wild now, are they? This is the same family we regularly see in the orchard and around the yard. Jean-Pierre even got a short video of them just by their porch (that is, my parents’ porch, not [...]
Harvest notes for September 7
The usual objective is to finish harvesting my noon on delivery days. I don’t know that we’ve actually succeeded very often, but it’s great motivation. For yesterday’s harvest, though, we started a bit earlier – the day before, to get a head start on potatoes, onions, peppers, and tomatoes. The days are getting shorter, and [...]
Harvest notes for September 3
Amazing isn’t it? September already. Being in the country (perhaps more specifically on a farm) has a peculiar way of tying us into the seasons. That’s a hard feeling to describe. I still wasn’t a big help with the harvest, I’m afraid. But we had a fantastic crew helping out today: Many thanks to Monique, [...]
August 31 harvest notes
Mondays are usually tough, because they follow Sundays. Although theoretically we don’t work on Sundays, they are really catch-up days. Catching up on everything that didn’t get done through the week, before we start another round. So when Monday morning rolls around I would really rather sleep in, at least until 7:00 o’clock or so. [...]
