June is the tipping point month were things can either go up hill or downhill … and fast! So far, we are holding steady. Some things are growing well, while others not so much.
Whew doggie! It’s been a busy week here at the urban homestead. Busy with bees (getting ready to harvest some honey!), battling bad bugs, moving the tender greens to cooler spot in the yard and getting things ready for a major can-a-thon.
There’s green beans in the garden (and clean clothes on the line!)
Summer is here and so are scrumptious vegetables that we’ve eagerly anticipated for nearly 1/2 a year. After so long, isn’t it just a blessings to sit down and devour a heaping plate of green beans slather in butter. MMMMM
Ms Fairlight, our Nigerian dwarf [...]
It’s starting to FINALLY feel like FALL! To celebrate the change in season we cut open one of of our first winter squashes (Burgess Buttercup) yum!
SATURDAY
Breakfast – homemade/homegrown pancakes topped with homegrown strawberries
Dinner – homemade flour tortillas, homemade spanish rice (homegrown onions, peppers, tomatoes) with homegrown sauteed pepper and local avocado and onions with raw [...]
The meals last week were certainly very colorful and tasty. We are still working on using up the huge bag of carrots we harvested a few weeks back so we enjoyed an easy and very delicious carrot salad with almost each one of our meals.
The tromboncino squashes are young and very tender and sweet – [...]
The weather is still cool for this time of year. I have to pinch myself – can’t believe it’s August!
I’ve noticed too that there’s not been many June bugs either. Spotted only two this week, last year we had a whole army of ‘em – it was like an invasion!
Well, we are just going to [...]
What’s with the weather? Today and yesterday morning it feels like fall? I know the coolness will burn off once the sun comes out but it really doesn’t feel like the August we are so used to.
Jordanne and I were commenting on the sound – it changed. Yeah, sounds funny but it’s not. We can [...]
Look at these beauties! Homegrown peppers
and colorful heirloom tomatoes (Cherokee Purple & Aunt Ruby Green)
There’s green (Provider) beans in the garden!
Local community gardener DS brought us a bag of citrus
& Freedom Farmer SG brought us a box of beautiful Ashworth Corn and Early Jesery Wakefield Cabbage from his organic farm
Thanks to FreedomGardens.org we been able to barter with a local farmer in the area. The most recent trade was for a couple pounds of cabbages for a few ollas and a couple jars of finished sauerkraut.
Have you hooked up with a FGer in your area and swapped yer crops. If not what are you [...]
If you have been following this site then you know that ‘Green Beans in the Garden” is one of our favorites songs! Heck, I’ve even caught the guys singing along!
Though we are experiencing an early case of gloomy weather (know to us SoCalites as June Gloom) summer is certainly here! So we will enjoy the [...]
Our summer Freedom Garden is taking shape complete with our collection of Freedom Seeds. We can proudly say that “Freedom Grows in Our Garden”
How’s your summer garden shaping up? Care to share?
The weather has been pleasant, even on the cool side. The day starts off overcast with slight to partial clearing around lunch. Looks like [...]
Sure, it’s exciting to get out of the blue calls from media outlets but it’s a superficial sort of excitement. It passes very quickly.
The other day we got an unexpected phone call which has me/us all excited still three weeks later.
It went something like this……
The person on the other line: “Hello, I was told by [...]
