We’ve been really busy here in the land of the Urban Hayseed. I ended up taking nearly a week off from doing anything in the garden because of the heat, and now it’s payback time.
Now is about the time you want to be putting in your fall and winter crops so that they have time to grow before the cold stops them in their tracks. At the same time, everything’s spitting out food like crazy, and it won’t keep if you don’t eat, freeze, ferment, and/or can it.
I finally got some time to go out there and plant a bed of carrots where the onions used to be…
In the past week or so, the Farm and Kitchen have produced: aronia jelly, blackberry jelly, homemade ketchup, pickled all kinds of things (sauerkraut, dill pickles, mixed veg pickles, etc.), crème fraîche ice cream, vegetable soup, raspberry sauce... and salted shiso leaves and elderberry jelly are soon to follow. Whew.
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The Onions, Not The Carrots
To imagine what the carrots look like, picture a patch of dirt.
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