Happy Friday, everyone!
Plant something: The weather has been absolutely amazing and while I’d like to believe that we’re well into the warm months, I have to remind myself that it really is still possible for us to get a frost or even a snow storm. Given this, I’m still hesitant to put much in the actual ground, but I am testing it a bit…but we’re getting close!!! 🙂
- Outside
- Sweet corn
- Bush beans
- Beets
- Potatoes (German Butterballs)
- Under grow lights
- Tomatoes (italian heirloom, roma, barnes mountain yellow heirloom, black form tula heirloom, orange flesh purple smudge heirloom, cherokee purple, brandywine )
- Cucumbers (lemon and beit alpha pickling)
Harvest something (from this Harvest Monday post):
- Carrots = 4 oz
- Chard = 8 oz
- Kale = 2 oz
- Spinach = 1 oz
- Eggs = 30
Preserve something: Last weekend I finally got around to blanching and freezing a bunch of our harvested greens. That’s about it.
Waste not (beyond the weekly composting, saving of egg shells and giving kitchen scraps to the chickens): Let’s see…Tool Lady is still in full-on organization mode in the garage in her (not so often) free time and in consolidating her nails and screws she gave me the old plastic containers to use to start seeds 🙂
Want Not: In addition to the above mentioned greens, I finally got around to making my very first real sourdough bread! My starter could use a little work…it’s still not as lively as I’d like it to be…but I know that it takes time and patience. All in all, the bread was actually really good! So, I guess now it can just get better!
Oh! I think this falls under this category…A couple of weekends ago I taught Fish Girl how to make flour tortillas. Then, on Tuesday after school, she decided to come home and make another batch on her own! They were so good! How cool is that?
Eat the Food: Lots and lots of greens and carrots, some canned pinto beans, lots of eggs, a little beef and green chile from the deep freeze (steak and eggs, anyone?), tortillas and bread top our list this week.
Build community food systems: We sold another dozen eggs to a co-worker 🙂
Skill up: I finally finalized our Urban Farm Economics spreadsheet I’ve been working on for a couple of months now. This is the document I’ll use to track all of our income from our little farm…eggs, veggies, fruits…in comparison to how much money we’ve invested into our farm…lumber, soil, seeds…I’m super excited to see how we do this year and am quite optimistic that we will pay off our investments in the next couple of years!
I also learned about leaf miners this week and the damage they can inflict on beets. Gross.
i love that egg photo!
Thanks, Kelli! I’m trying to get creative with my egg photography 😉
Wow, you’ve been busy, but it sounds like a lot of fun too! This weekend we are adding soil, compost and other additives to our soil to improve conditions in our raised beds. Then we can finally plant all the goodies we’ve been collections. Our chickens are laying an egg a day each, except for our gal that is molting.
You’ve been busy, too! I guess it’s that time of year, ha? Congrats on all your eggs! I love it!