Boy, you’d think we were in the middle of July, not the last day of August! Even though we started harvesting as soon as it was light this morning, we didn’t manage to finish until noon, and by then we were cooking. Nearing the end we almost gave up on harvesting the summer squash, but [...]
Archive > August 2010
I love canning season!
Amidst batches of tomato sauce, tomato salsa, blackberry jam, apple butter, apple sauce and delicious apple ginger marmalade, I write this little note to thank the yummy edibles and the soil and the rain and the sunshine for making my belly (and pantry) so very happy and full. Colourful freezer coldslaw and diced tomatoes are [...]
Another harvest day
I promised myself that this would be THE harvest day that I would document with photos: of beautiful veggies, of sweaty people harvesting, of us enjoying our coffee break (which for me was 1 minute sitting down, and for Joël didn’t happen at all), of bins filling up… Alas, my intentions were thrown overboard (the [...]
August 10 harvest
Ah, the vegetables of summer! Today’s baskets include lettuces, summer squash, cucumbers, yellow beans, tomatoes, swiss chard, garlic, red onions, radishes, sunflower sprouts, and the first of the potatoes. It was a last-minute decision to include the potatoes (a little to make up for the lack of beets which were judged still too small for [...]
CSA Basket 9
What a wet one! Or as I like to say, the weather this morning was great for harvesting greens that would otherwise wilt in the sun… like the Rhubarb Red swiss chard and the Magenta lettuce in the baskets. The Sierra Blanca onions. They are technically a hard storage onion, although this early batch has [...]
July photo tour
In a bit of a rush, but JP snapped several pictures of the farm a few days ago. Here they are in bulk – I’ll annotate them when I get the chance.
