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May 5, 2010
It’s spring! Well actually, this week it feels more like SUMMER!
And that means lots of fun culinary delights coming out of the urban homestead’s kitchen.
Combining edible flower, herbs and butter for a delightful treat to slather on biscuits or smother veggies.
Here’s a recipe for HERB BUTTER
Fresh From Our Garden to Your Table
Our front porch farm [...]
June 24, 2008
Here on the urban homestead we have all sorts of herbs – fragrant, culinary and medicinal (nearly 90 at last count!). What’s ideal for small gardens is that herbs are generally easy to care for and very prolific – and even profitable.
So what do to with all those herbs? Lots – uses are endless.
Here on the [...]
November 14, 2007
Lemon Thyme
A kitchen herb garden isn’t complete without this deliciously citrus scented thyme. I love using it to make herb butter to accompany a melody of homegrown vegs. It adds a very aromatic and earthy flavor to the butter. If you haven’t started your very own kitchen garden, or you do already have one [...]
October 5, 2006
by Anais in Barnyard, Compost, Garden, Herbs, Market Gardening, Posts by Anais, Soil & Mulch, Vegetables, Weather
Praying for its meal. Fresh salad from the garden. Limas! Eggplant,
tomatoes.
No Rain
The 60% chance of rain that was predicted for today has been lessened to 20% – good and bad news, I suppose. Good that we don’t have to worry too much about the roof, bad in that the garden would have loved a good [...]
February 2, 2006
Mints
THE FRAGRANT PATH
The front yard consists of a hodge podge of vegetables, fruits, berries and herbs (both medicinal and culinary). The front yard could be more productive (in poundage) if we were to replace the herbs with heavier yielding plants. Even though the herbs don’t produce poundage of weighable produce or fruit they are [...]
May 12, 2004
We harvested the first handful beans the other day and the zukes are almost ready, evensome currant tomatoes are ripening.
The blackberry bushes are loaded with the largest blackberries we’ve ever seen!!!!
Every morning JD goes out and picks a large basket full — and they keep coming! Not that we are complaining any! So if you [...]
October 10, 2003
The plywood has been hammered to the roof and so we are now awaiting the solar panels and brackets (from California Green Designs of Encino Calif) that should arrive sometime today. Once the brackets are screwed onto the rafters, the next step will be to put on the tarpaper/singles, install the solar panels and then [...]
July 9, 2003
Purple Amaranth Purple Echinacea Goldenrod
There are endless opportunities to experience when you have a garden. Besides providing fresh produce for our eating needs, the pleasure of beauty and interaction with God’s nature, we can actually make a decent living from intensive gardening.
We are continually amazed at how much income we receive from this [...]
