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November 24, 2022November 24, 2022

11/24/2022 plenty of thanks

We thought it was supposed to rain today, so yesterday we picked up all the tomato cages and put all the vegetable debris in the city compost pile. (I don’t know that ours gets hot enough to kill any diseases.). We piled the dead marigolds on the bed where we’ll put peppers next year. We put some sugar pea seeds there to see if the debris will shelter them. We took the plastic off the greens so they could get rain. We put cilantro seeds everywhere and carrot seeds among the greens.

For Thanksgiving, Paula started our Corrientes cowpeas soaking.

The Turkey is from Paula’s aunt and uncle in Texas where they raise some. All the veggies in the beans are from the farm share except garden poblanos. Wes used some store apples and store ham as flavors. But otherwise the veggies are all our garden or the farm share!

November 1, 2022November 1, 2022

11/01/2022 saffron season!

October 17, 2022October 17, 2022

10/17/2022 it might get in 30s tonight??

Shackleton inspected sweet peppers as I brought them in on a red tray.

The long skinny red peppers are Corbaci sweet peppers. The round dark purple peppers are Purple Beauty sweet peppers.

October 11, 2022October 11, 2022

10/11/2022 and other recent foods

Tonight contains garden onions.

The Brussels sprouts in the left side are topped with sweet Corbaci peppers from the garden.

Paula made a bean and potato chunky soup. The giant beans are Royal Corona beans, a type of runner bean, which came in our first Bean Club shipment.

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022

10/03/2022 Bean Club dinner and other excitement

My colleague gave me these delicious tiny tomatoes from her sister’s garden east of here. She said it’s a hybrid between tommy toe and another variety and has bred true for two ish years! I’m saving some!

A yellow iris by the rock garden.

Polenta with cranberry beans from Bean Club and fancy sausage from California. Salad includes farm share peppers and the main mean also included summer squash from the farm share.

A cooked cranberry bean. They were very creamy in texture!

The cranberry bean broth was very savory. The Chef laughed at us taking a picture.

Here’s some of the remaining cranberry beans. They have a tan base but occasionally the red speckles and stripes turn the bean almost completely red!

You can see they are nice chunky big beans. Larger than the average pinto.

October 2, 2022October 2, 2022

10/02/2022 complex dinner

Tomato basil soup (basil, onion, and garlic from garden; celery from farm share), fried farm share potatoes, chicken with garden onions, and farm share peppers on the salad.

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

9/29/2022 farm share and Bean Club dinner

Jalapeño poppers with farm share peppers, grilled cheese sandwiches with farm share tomatoes, and farm share purple hulled pinkeye cowpeas, French green lentils from Bean Club, and summer squash from the farm share. Thank you Paula!

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022

Catch-up on dinners

Couscous, roasted chicken, and roasted okra from farm share.

Noodles with sauce, I forget what kind, but it has garden onions and garden purple bell peppers in it.

Cheesy grits with farm share tomatoes, roast chicken, and roast okra.

Briar knows about the roast chicken. Mostly farm share veggies here, I can’t remember if garden onions involved?

Not sure if Shackleton is here for the chair or the chicken smells.

A veggie and chicken omelet with couscous and cilantro. Veggies included garden onions and garden purple bell peppers.

July 10, 2022July 10, 2022

07/10/2022 purple

Paula tried one of our Purple Beauty Peppers and found it to be not very sweet, more green bell pepper taste still, and after looking online I think I picked them too early. Needs to be fully, deeply purple. I was worried about sunscald though (see the big tan area on the top one). They’ll still be good to use though.

The William’s Pride apple continues to get a flush of red. It’s hot out, me too!

I thought this grasshopper was really pretty. Not sure I’ve seen one like it before. We have lots of predator insects and birds in the yard so a few grasshoppers are no harm and lots of food for our other wild friends!

Zucchini begins.

June 25, 2022June 25, 2022

06/25/2022 it was on sale, we had to

Pepper plant from Ellison’s feed store, variety Big Bertha. A sweet pepper. Our neighbor down the street recommended it.