We planted two beds worth of asparagus in 2018. We read that you shouldn’t harvest any that first year, and only a light harvest the second year. So, this is our third season and we can finally harvest pretty heavily. We cut 1 pound of asparagus into 1″ pieces and pan fried with butter and […]
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
The greenhouse is doing a great job of growing lettuce, arugula and radishes (in the corner that you can’t see). We also have our pepper and tomato seedlings back outside. They’ve been travelling between our house and the greenhouse a few times this spring due to the warm days but freezing nights. Harvesting radishes in
This is how I know it’s officially summer! Cleaning gallons of fresh basil. We have 5 types of basil growing in the garden this year: Napolitano, Genovese, Lettuce Leaf, Lemon, and Holy Basil. We use all but the Lemon and Holy (they are more for teas) in our pesto. Picking the leaves off the stems,
We planted some store bought ginger root just to see if we could grow it ourselves. I think we planted about a half dozen small pieces of ginger this past spring. Although this is a shade loving plant we left it out in the garden which gets full sun for most of the day. The
When I was a kid I didn’t eat tomatoes on their own. I thought they tasted funny and when I cut into them I thought they looked like they weren’t done yet. All those seeds suspended in the gelatinous goo just didn’t look appealing. Since then my taste buds have changed and so has my