The garden continues to produce as well and I'm eating salad like it's going out of style. Or out of season, anyway. The kale is bountiful, but so are the share leafy greens, so I don't quite need them yet. Same for the cukes, which at some point I imagine will be turned into more real (fermented) and fake (vinegar) pickles. :)
And the shed is ( Read more... )

Late summer and harvest really kicks into high gear! Meanwhile, Red Fire reports that they've already lost 1/4 of their (HUGE, so there's still plenty left) tomato crop to the Blight. Hopefully the rest will be safe, but I fear for future updates. Steve tells me his crop is still clear and hopefully it will stay that way.
In urban homesteading ( Read more... )

One-third of the way into CSA season and I am still very happy with the share-split situation. I think Park and Red Fire both have a lot to offer and I love getting the best of both worlds. (Since people have asked, if I had to go back to only one or the other, it'd Parker.)

( Week 6 )

Forgot to post this last week, but better late than never.

• 1 bunch chard
• 1 bunch carrots
• 1/2 bunch red russian kale
• 1 head red lettuce
• 1/2 lb green beans
• 1 lb fava beans
• 1/2 bunch baby fennel
• 1/2 bunch purple kohlrabi with greens
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• 12 oz cucumbers
• 12 oz summer squash
• 1 lb baby potatoes
• 1/2 bunch dill
• 1/2 bunch carrots
• 1/2 head red ( Read more... )

My newly-acquired mad skillz are making short work of the farm share this time around (it's gotten easier to deal with every year, go figure), and even with being away for four days, I had the need to harvest my own garden lettuce for a Tuesday lunch salad. And it was yummy, oh yes. The lettuce, of course, loves this weather.
This weekend, I ( Read more... )

The lettuce is already dwindling: a mere 2.5 head total for me this week, though there are plenty of other leafy greens. It's been a great week for urban homesteading though. Activities have included starting new batches of both vanilla-chocolate porter and apfelwein, canning the best jam ever, and my very first kraut, which turned out amazing and ( Read more... )

The list is long, the bounty is huge!

• 1 pint strawberries
  
• 1 bunch Russian red kale
  
• 1 bunch Swiss chard
  
• 1 head Napa cabbage
  
• 1 head Bibb (is that also a place?) lettuce
  
• 1 bunch collard greens
  
• 1 head escarole
  
• 1/3 lb mesclun
  
• 1/4 lb spinach
  
• 1 purple kohlrabi
  
• 2 (maybe 3?) Hakurei turnips
  
• 1 zucchini
  
• 1/2 bunch (baby?) scallions
  
• 5 small carrots ( Read more... )

This year I am trying something new with my farm share. I am once again with Parker Farm (yay Steve!), but I am sharing it with a friend who has a share with Red Fire, which we are also sharing, along with a fruit share. I am hoping the results will be more variety, ease of trading away things I don't like, etc, and while it's a bit early to make ( Read more... )