Other People's Trees

20 pounds of Meyer lemons from neighbors Jenn and Jerry who we met when we knocked on their door and promised them marmalade in exchange for lemons from their loaded tree. Nice folks!

Daily Dinner

Thanksgiving! Arugula salad, bread, venison meatballs with parsnips and mushrooms, and more!

Other People's Trees

We traded avocados to Pedro for delicious figs. We traded avocados to Terry for kumquat jam and berry jam.

Daily Barter

Hooray for friends and neighbors! We gave Dafna some avocados and she gave us spicy pickles and jalpeno jam. Rosalie passed on a whole bunch of quinces from her mom's neighbor's tree. A quince bucket brigade.

Daily Dinner

gazpacho with tomatoes, cucumbers, and herbs from the garden and homemade vinegar.
fresh tomatoes
beans with garlic
on our bread with cheese we had loquat jam from neighbor Dafna
yum

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Salmon (from Alaska) with preserved lemons from neighbor Dafna.

Daily Barter

We have and on going excess of eggs these days. We have been working of turning the eggs into other products that we do not have and aren't making.

Andrea, Jonathan's friend from middle school, read The Omnivore's Dilemma. It convinced her that there are no ethical eggs commercially available to her. She has also started making her own yogurt. This is perfect! I love yogurt! I hate buying things!

Wednesday evening she came by with two quarts of yogurt in exchange for a dozen eggs. It is delicious! I have taken it to school for lunch, we have put it on our pancakes spread with marmalade, we used it to make cucumber salad with the first cucumber of the season.

She made it with organic whole Straus milk that comes in those lovely glass bottles.

Thank you Andrea!

Daily Barter

I met a new friend and neighbor through Forage Oakland!

We biked to her house today with a dozen eggs and two different kinds of marmalade.

She gave us two jams, pickled carrots, preserved lemons and a delicada squash plant!

She has a blog about her jams and pickles and about the plants around her. Beautiful walnut tree photos!
Here is her blog if you want to get your own strawberry or jalapeNo jam: www.INNAjam.com.

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We traded a dozen eggs to our friend Bob for more venison from the deer he shot last year. Look at all the meat he gave us! So generous!
I cooked up some of the venison steak with tons of herbs, plum wine, and lots of olive oil. I cooked it very slowly 'till it got all melty. Yum!!