Backyard harvest July 8
I’m still working on my recipe for this week, but while I’m pulling that together, I thought I’d quickly upload some photos of what we just harvested from the garden. I think this is our single biggest...
View ArticlePlanning for the spring garden
We’ve been so happy this year eating all the great food we preserved from last year. I still have green beans in the freezer (as well as cabbage and tomatillos). And now is the time to start planning...
View ArticleWorms in my kitchen
If you had told me a year ago that I would consider red wigglers “adorable and cuddly,” I would have rolled my eyes and snorted. But just this morning I declared the squirmy little things downright...
View ArticleOur new hand trommel sifter
The fun never ends here at the Backyard Grocery! This week, Rick built his very own hand trommel sifter to make the job of separating our worms from their castings a little bit easier. Add hand trommel...
View ArticleWhat to do with Sunchokes
One of my favorite things about the community garden is that people share their abundance. Like if someone’s sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes) go completely insane. Which, lucky for me, happened and I...
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