Daily Harvest

A little breakfast salad.

Garden Planning

While we were gone, the Territorial Seed company catalog came in the mail. (http://www.territorialseed.com) We came home around 9:30 after having been away for almost two weeks. I sat down with the catalog and my beat up copy of Golden Gate Gardening and started making plans for the coming year.

Here is my calendar for the the year so far. We can change the color of the font from black to something else when we actually get things planted.

January:

• Onion seeds indoors
• Leek seeds
• Broccoli seeds
• Lettuce
  

February

• Favas
• Carrots parsnips and radish seeds mixed
• Peas
• Leeks
  

March

• Cabbage seeds indoors
• Mellon seeds indoors, in bottomless pots
• Peas
• Lettuce
  

April

• Butternut squash

May

• Brussel sprout seeds indoors
• Pole beans

June

• Pole beans

July

• Chinese cabbage
  

Daily Harvest

Our first day home from the north, and what did Jonathan find in the chicken coop?

So strange, so rare... eggs!!

Daily Harvest

This was the last tiny harvest before heading up North to spend time with our families.

A little salad for my lunch.

A couple of raspberries.

Daily Dinner

Jonathan thawed out roasted tomatoes from the summer and cooked them with fresh herbs. He made polenta and a baked beet neither of which are from the garden.
It was lovely eating summer again.

Daily Harvest

Rain and rain and rain, finally.

We are harvesting rain water in out barrels and tonight picked mustard and herbs for dinner in soup.

Daily Harvest

Today I wanted to make brownies to go with our afternoon coffee. I started melting the butter and chocolate when I realized that chicken strike = no eggs!

In an attempt to turn mustard greens into eggs I picked a cute bundle (Jonathan reports seeing similar bundles in the farmer's market for $3) and went out into our neighborhood looking to trade. The first neighbor either wasn't home, or she saw what I was carrying and didn't want that much veg in her life. The second neighbor opened the door, admired the greens and traded me for two eggs.

Thank you neighbors!