Independence days
  • March 23, 2012
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Independence days

Happy Friday, everyone!!!

Man, has this week felt crazy to anyone else?  Not sure what’s going on, but it’s been a little batty around here.  Well, thank goodness for Fridays and warm weather…I could really use some meditative time in the yard…  🙂

Plant something (under grow lights)…I’m kind of out of control:

  • Loofah
  • Eggplant
  • Italian Heirloom Tomatoes
  • Yellow Taxi Tomatoes
  • Yellow Pear Tomatoes
  • Barnes Mountain Yellow Tomatoes
  • Brandywine Tomatoes
  • Roma Tomatoes
  • Tomatillos
  • Purple Opal Basil
  • Genovese Basil

Harvest something (from this Harvest Monday post):

  • Mixed greens = 3 ounces
  • Spinach = 6 ounces (2 ounces form under the grow lights and 4 from the hoop house)
  • Kale = 1 ounce
  • Eggs = 25

Preserve something: I have some beets in the fridge that I meant to pickle this week…but it didn’t happen.  Maybe this weekend…
Waste not:

  • We used 3 pallets (from my dad), and weed cloth we had stashed in the garage to make these pallet “beds” to help us create an enclosure for our bees
  • Cut up several sprouting potatoes that were meant for eating and put them to chit in the pantry

Want Not:

  • I got 9 packets of new-to-me seeds from a local Seed Savers Exchange on Thursday.

Eat the Food:

  • Homemade whole wheat bread
  • Roasted chicken and root veggies
  • Roast from the freezer
  • Lots of harvested eggs
  • Lots of harvested greens
  • Red chile from the freezer

Build community food systems:

  • Gave some seeds to the above mentioned Seed Savers Exchange
  • Sold a dozen eggs to our accountant

Skill up: 

  • We learned how to build pallet “beds”
  • We learned how to move a top bar hive full of bees

Independence Days Challenge is hosted by
I’d love to see what you’ve been up to!  If you’d like to join in simply leave a link to your Independence Days post and I’ll pop on over!  If you don’t have a blog, feel free to let me know what you’ve been up to in the comments below!

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Written by Melissa @ Ever Growing Farm

2 Comments

  1. Tracy

    Great list of plantings. I think the pallets look great.I wish I had been as productive as you this week.
    Tracy

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