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Friday, May 02, 2008

weekly update... just starting out

hmm… well, my “doing” is more likely to happen on the weekends than the weekdays, so i’m a bit short for this update BUT here we go:

planted: nothing since last weekend when we planted spinach, lettuces, basil, watermelon, peas, and onions.

harvested: nothing yet, but some of our lettuce and arugula have sprouted! and not only that, i can tell a difference between the two kinds of sprouts now (they’re in the same container). not quite to a point where i can tell which is which though…

preserved: nothing yet.

stored: also nothing since we do our shopping on the weekend.

prepped: considered water storage ideas, and will ask at juice/smoothie places for containers of some sort this weekend. also planning to gather buckets from the grocery store this weekend.

managed: will go through my stores tonight to see how much food we have in the house, precisely

cook something new: made two batches of tabbouli in the last week, and a killer pasta salad. also had sauteed asparagus with lemon butter and garlic over fresh pasta. yum. (i have a feeling this might become my favorite category.)

work on local food systems: not sure where to start on this one.

compost something: cleaned the kale and other things out of our veg drawer in the fridge. the compost pile got to eat them. i guess that may be “managing” too, eh?

learned a skill: i learned more about water-bath canning, in an intellectual way.

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