The First Tomato!

The 4th of July we have growing on our deck yielded this ~2 inch beauty. It did not last through long once it was off the vine!

CSA 2010: Week 4

Food this week: Beets (Sue had already cut and cooked the beets by the time I took this picture), a tiny bunch of Broccoli, Fava beans, Kale, Chard, Cilantro, Parsley, Basil, Raspberries, Shell peas, Snap and snow peas.

CSA 2010: Week 3

In the CSA this week we got:
- Radishes and lots of lettuce bunches used in a big salad for our 4th of July BBQ
- Garlic scapes used in a steak tip marinade and they were served with Beets. The beet greens and remainder of the scaped will likely be stir fried.
- Asian greens blend an Kale which I plan on stir frying
- Snow Peas, Snap Peas and Shell peas that I just eat raw as a snack until they are gone. I love these!
- Red raspberries which are Sue's favorite snack
- Cilantro and Parsley which honestly I never us all of, but they smell very nice

Fruit in the Yard

The apples and blueberries that I planted last summer are producing some fruit. Here is one of the half-dozen-or-so red delicious apples growing right now:
And this is one of the 6 blueberry bushes that is starting to yield a few ripe berries:

CSA Week 2: 2010

Week 2 of the CSA included the following:
· Cilantro
· Chard
· Lettuce
· Collards
· Onions
· Radishes
· Dill
· Blizzard snow and sugar ann snap peas

CSA Week 1: 2010

Week 1 of our CSA has finally arrived from Many Hands Organic Farm. As expected, it is very green heavy. It included 2 bunches of green onions, some sort of Chinese cabbage, namy heads of lettuce, kale, beet greens (with a few small beets mixed in), garlic scapes, spearmint, peppermint, and strawberries.

Today, the family returned to Tougas farm to pick Strawberies.
This year we only had to walk a couple hundred yard to the fields where they were picking and spend about 30 minutes our in the field.
We picked just shy of 13 pounds.
Sue froze 2 cookie sheets worth of berries (2 - 3) quarts and tomorrow I plan to make Jam. I have a feeling that the 13 pounds will be gone before we know it!