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    Rustic Apricot Tart

    I’ve come to the realization that the Urban Farm we left behind is no longer an Urban Farm. It’s a nice house on a tiny piece of property with a ton of potential and all the infrastructure someone would need to turn it back into an urban farm, sure. .…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! Thankfully, the past week finally brought us some much needed rain!  Not only has it helped to calm our spirits a bit, but the garden has loved the respite form the heat as well as the moisture from the skies.  Rain water must have some magic in…

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    Apricot Bounty

    What a difference a week makes, ha?  It amazes me how quickly fruit grows when left to its own devices! Last weekend, after harvesting small amounts of apricots for over a week, I finally had enough to make my very first apricot jam!  While I was at it, I made…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! Things are, happily, continuing their slow roll out of the garden and into the kitchen! The Yellow Taxi Tomatoes are slowing their production and there are only a handful of them left on the plants.  It’s OK though, because there are many other varieties that will follow…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! This week brought a mixture of harvests, including the first jalapeno and the first Happy Hot Peppers!  Dave, I’m hoping you might have some insight/shared curiosity about why ours went straight from green to red instead of the pretty orange you’ve gotten in the past.  Very interesting…I guess we’ll…

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    Itty Bitty Fruit

    Well, it looks like we just might have made it through this last little cold snap OK.  Everything that’s in the garden so far seems unharmed by the freezing temps we had the last few nights and for at least the next week our lowest low is supposed to be…

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    Spring Blossoms

    If our fruit trees don’t suffer a hard freeze for the next month and a half, this just might be our first year of real  fruit harvests (you know, real as in more than 8 or 10 apples)!  Oh, my fingers are crossed and I am so hopeful, but with…