this has been a week of not much happening in terms of independence days. this is the point at which i started to lose interest in the garden last year. things were in the ground and i would find "better" things to do with my time. goal this coming week: plant something! preserve something! hack down the yard weeds! spend time in the back yard!
1 planted: nothing
2 harvested: one of our basil plants for pesto thursday night. two sugar snap pea pods just before i tore out the plants to make room for more planting. not sure what i'll put in that pot...
3 preserved: nothing
4 stored: picked up a couple months' worth of honey and 9 months' worth of yeast
5 prepped: received my order of five colored bucket lids with spouts. not sure how the spouts will do with emptying/refilling.
6 managed: weeded a bit
7 cook something new: cole slaw! from the new moosewood cookbook. yum.
8 work on local food systems: csa pickup - fruit shares have begun!
9 reduced waste: nabbed a novel and several half-filled notebooks from neighbors' trash piles
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
independence days week... 9 i think
1 planted: kentucky wonder green beans beneath my corn and sunflowers
2 harvested: a handful of snap peas, mint for tea
3 preserved: nothing
4 stored: placed a bulk food storage order! 25lb baking soda, 25lb red wheat berries, 25lb garbanzos, 25lb lentils, 1lb thick rolled oats
5 prepped: placed an order for some bucket lids with spouts to see if we can do those perhaps instead of/to supplement gamma lids (which are quite expensive!) also, joined in on sharon's food preservation class which starts next tuesday :)
6 managed: weeded the corn patch
7 cook something new: made a mahvelous mock tuna from garbanzo beans. also blettes grand-mere, which is swiss chard with raisins, rosemary, and pine nuts.
8 work on local food systems: joined the just food mailing list.
9 reduced waste: can't think of anything out of the ordinary here...
10 learned a skill: i don't know that i like this category because i feel like learning is not a "boom. it's done." thing. i can't say "i learned THIS this week," because learning is a long-term process for me. perhaps i'll skip this category from now on.
2 harvested: a handful of snap peas, mint for tea
3 preserved: nothing
4 stored: placed a bulk food storage order! 25lb baking soda, 25lb red wheat berries, 25lb garbanzos, 25lb lentils, 1lb thick rolled oats
5 prepped: placed an order for some bucket lids with spouts to see if we can do those perhaps instead of/to supplement gamma lids (which are quite expensive!) also, joined in on sharon's food preservation class which starts next tuesday :)
6 managed: weeded the corn patch
7 cook something new: made a mahvelous mock tuna from garbanzo beans. also blettes grand-mere, which is swiss chard with raisins, rosemary, and pine nuts.
8 work on local food systems: joined the just food mailing list.
9 reduced waste: can't think of anything out of the ordinary here...
10 learned a skill: i don't know that i like this category because i feel like learning is not a "boom. it's done." thing. i can't say "i learned THIS this week," because learning is a long-term process for me. perhaps i'll skip this category from now on.
Monday, June 23, 2008
independence days check in
i've started to lag in my independence days efforts, but this week, my lady led the charge and we actually got a lot done! (and most of it was done yesterday!!!)
planted: none. hoping to plant beans under the corn this week.
harvested: much lettuce, lambsquarters, onion greens, 10 quarts of strawberries from our csa's u-pick venture, roughly 10 sugar snap pea pods which got added to a quart we got at the market
preserved: froze probably 8 quarts of strawberries, plus a couple pounds of rhubarb. the plan is to make strawberry-rhubarb crisp next week (we didn't have oats this week)
stored: nothing that i can think of
prepped: also nothing that i can think of
managed reserves: again, nothing i can think of
cooked something new: strawberry pie (my very first piecrust EVER), pb granola bars for the son who doesn't like to eat breakfast
reduced waste: participated in crunchy chicken's liquid gold challenge saturday, ate the entire GIANT BOWL OF LETTUCE that my lady made for us to use up the bounty of lettuce from the csa and our garden
expand local food community: picked strawberries at our csa farm, borrowed a pastry cutter from a friend (instead of buying my own) - she'll get a piece of pie in return
learn a new skill: fertilizing garden, making pie crust
planted: none. hoping to plant beans under the corn this week.
harvested: much lettuce, lambsquarters, onion greens, 10 quarts of strawberries from our csa's u-pick venture, roughly 10 sugar snap pea pods which got added to a quart we got at the market
preserved: froze probably 8 quarts of strawberries, plus a couple pounds of rhubarb. the plan is to make strawberry-rhubarb crisp next week (we didn't have oats this week)
stored: nothing that i can think of
prepped: also nothing that i can think of
managed reserves: again, nothing i can think of
cooked something new: strawberry pie (my very first piecrust EVER), pb granola bars for the son who doesn't like to eat breakfast
reduced waste: participated in crunchy chicken's liquid gold challenge saturday, ate the entire GIANT BOWL OF LETTUCE that my lady made for us to use up the bounty of lettuce from the csa and our garden
expand local food community: picked strawberries at our csa farm, borrowed a pastry cutter from a friend (instead of buying my own) - she'll get a piece of pie in return
learn a new skill: fertilizing garden, making pie crust
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