Wow! I guess it has been longer than I thought since I updated. The garden has been producing well, and I have begun to preserve some of the harvest for winter. I have blanched and frozen 28, 2 serving bags of beans, made 6 quarts of pickled peppers, and 2 quarts of dill pickles. Shawn also started selling some of our excess to a high end restaurant in town, and they have taken 70 pounds of baby carrots, 15 quarts of beans, 3 quarts of beets, 10 pounds of cucumbers, and 40 heads of butter crunch lettuce. We haven't made a fortune selling, but the money has come in handy, and has only been produce that we have an over abundance of.
We also ended up with 4 new hens that we found free on Kijiji. I believe they are a little older than our original ladies, but are still producing well, so all is good. The man we got them from said that they free ranged, but here, for the first few days, they barely ventured outside of the coop, hanging around the feed tray. You could tell which eggs were theirs, the yolks were pale, like grocery store eggs. They have begun to venture out in front and behind the barn, and when Parker discovered a horned tomato worm in the garden, we gave it to them, and they about lost their little chicken minds!
I have 2 dozen eggs in the fridge. I ate 4 eggs yesterday! Poached on toast for breakfast, an omelet for lunch, and a poached egg on brown rice served on a bed of sauteed kale. Yesterday was our first time eating kale, and it was pretty good! Kale is a super green, and we will be eating it as much as we can while it is still producing.
I found out you can steam and freeze chard, so now we don't have to worry about eating all that we have in the garden while it is still fresh....we are going to have a lot of veggies stored for the winter! I think it is high time I went out and got some photos from around the farm. So much has changed!
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