Elephant Garlic Harvest
4 years ago we planted 4 cloves of elephant garlic that my parents gave us. We kept replanting most of each years harvest and this year we had an entire raised bed planted out.
Fermented Foods!
We’ve been making our own sauerkraut for years, but we haven’t really tried many other veggies. This post is really just a reminder to ourselves to try our hand at fermenting other veggies. Here is a link below to many other fermentation recipes. https://www.attainable-sustainable.net/ferment-vegetables/ Sarah making sauerkraut in 2015.
First Frost! Vegan Pesto Recipe
We just had our first frost. We harvested all of our remaining basil, eggplant, tomatoes, peppers and some herbs in preparation for our first frost. Sarah made our pesto recipe with all of the basil. I have some kind of reaction to pine nuts and they change my tastebuds so that sweet tastes bitter for
Bought a Used Freezer….It had a Problem
With so many people growing or expanding their vegetable garden this year it has caused shortages of several things in our area. Seed companies are sold out of some seeds including mail order and local suppliers. Canning jars and lids are in really short supply. New and used freezers are really hard to find in
What To Make With All The Zucchini?
Zucchini season is ON! (because how often do you see a funny internet meme about zucchini?) We have an abundance of summer squash from our garden that we’ve been trying to eat and preserve as we harvest them. We like to make a hearty stew, squash burgers and zucchini bread. However, I want to try
Shiitake Mushrooms In Winter
This past spring we inoculated about a dozen red oak logs with a cold weather shiitake mushroom strain called Snow Cap. They have been fruiting all winter long! We also inoculated logs with a warm weather strain called Halo. Between the two we should be harvesting mushrooms more regularly throughout the year. Picked almost a
Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope everyone spends a day with loved ones and is thankful for all of the family and friends in their life. Apple pie that Abby, Mitch and Sarah made….it was freakin’ yummy.
Garlic harvest
We planted well over 100 cloves of grocery store garlic last fall (October). In the last couple weeks the bottom few leaves have started to brown and some of the stalks were lying down, which is a sure sign they’re ready to harvest. This represents about 85% of the harvest with the rest still growing
New Amendments To Our Garden Soil – DIY Complete Organic Fertilizer
We create our own compost every year for our garden. We also collect horse manure by the pickup truck load from neighbors and let it age for months before use in our garden beds. Our garden soil looks great and we usually grow nice healthy plants, but we thought we could do better. I ran
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Book Recommendation – How Not To Die
You’ve probably heard the quote “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” from Hippocrates over 2300 years ago. This book is the modern scientific embodiment of that statement. When it comes to your health this is probably the most important book I’ve read to date and would recommend it to anyone. It