Tag Archive for ‘potatoes’

HOMEGROWN POTATOES

Time to harvest our Po-ta-Toes!

Here in So Cal, where we have a to be desired growing season, started the potatoes back in December.

APRIL HARVEST TALLY

Wacky weather whiplash pattern continues. Last week it was a scorching 95 degrees then quicker than you can say “summer’s here?” few days later it’s cold, overcast and raining!

HOMESTEAD HELPER: POWDERED MILK

I remember my grandmother mixing powdered milk into regular whole milk as a way of making the milk go further. She used the instant dry milk and, back then, that did help to make the price of milk more economical.

MARCH HARVEST TALLY & GARDEN REPORT

It’s officially Spring and what a rocky start weather wise. We spiked into the 90’s for a few days and then dipped back under 60 with gray skies and drizzle.

CORN VS POTATO?

Taking stock of what we have here in the urban homestead’s pantry for our next co-op order, a recent comment from a friend got me thinking. Been doing a lot of that lately, especially when it comes to our food staples that we don’t grow. Now, I am all for choices but sometimes I think Ma Ingalls had it, well, “easier.”

WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP

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 [...]

WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP

Last week we enjoyed the garden’s blessings of bountiful produce along with other locally grown treats that were gotten in a swap with a local Freedom Farmer Also there’s one day that we enjoyed breakfast for dinner.  It was one of those busy days – garden, hive and other work and one needing something filling [...]

WEEKLY MEAL WRAPUP

Though our schedule was slightly interrupted with a slew of different community events, here’s what we enjoyed eating last week. SATURDAY out SUNDAY Breakfast – out Dinner – homemade pizza topped with homegrown, marinated peppers, homegrown-made tomato sauce, organic cheese and homegrown salad MONDAY Breakfast – homemade skillet granola Lunch – homegrown-made kimchi  (made with [...]

ON THE ‘STEAD

Keeping It Real Sure we have a lot of goings on beyond our urban homestead lifestyle (websites, events, film, etc) and it’s good to keep things real where our readers can see and read first hand about what’s happening here on the ‘stead. The ground was certainly wet this morning, but nothing in the way of [...]

THE PRESERVATION FRONT

Another busy week of harvesting and preserving in our efforts to bring food security closer to home. While the kitchen is hub for the harvest happenings and we gals hang out with the likes of Ms Guava and Mr Pepper,  outside we shift gears into a fall garden mode. In the kitchen, since we had [...]