My parents’ garden failed this year. This is devastating because they are poor and rely on their crops to feed themselves and their chickens. What are some good heirloom tomato and zucchini varieties to grow in PEI? It’s a high-wind area, so pole varieties won’t work. Black Russian tomatoes did well for them in prior years, but not this time. I need to send them new seeds for next year. At least they have a good crop of beans. #SeedSaver#SeedSavers#homesteading#FoodSovereignty#CropFailure#Gardening#FoodShouldBeFree#IndigenousFoodSovereignty@IndigenousFoodSov
My garden is just on the verge of spewing pounds and pounds and pounds of cooking apples, pears and plums. It's almost sinister.. The kitchen is going to be canning chaos in a week or two. Love autumn..
Some of these very ripe bananas had seeds. This is what banana seeds look like. I'm going to see if I can get them to germinate. Banana seeds can take weeks to months to germinate, if they germinate at all. #plants#fruit#growsomeshit#homesteading
Did you know that you can freeze fresh sweet peppers? I picked these this morning, chopped and flash froze on sheets. Then pack into larger bags. Great for adding to food that is cooked. Just scoop the amount right out of the freezer bag, and add frozen to whatever you are cooking. This also works really well for mature onions and green onions, too.
Since #Canning season is upon us, a lot of university Ag Extensions are warning folks that #Vinegar with 5% acidity is getting harder to find, and your #CannedFood will not have a safe shelf life if you skimp.
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The days are inching toward Lughnasadh. The harvests are well underway as the mountains get smokier and the buzz of insects in the afternoon gets more insistent. Even as the days get hotter, I yearn for cool autumn mornings wet with dew and the fragrance of bracken browned in the sun.
I spend a lot of time finding and testing recipes to sell online, at farmer's markets, and at the roadside stand I set up on my family's property in the summer.
That is in addition to other things I sell, like stickers and candles.
What are some things you would stop by and check out and consider buying, knowing it was created and produced locally?
I've already got vegetables down, anything excess from my garden I turn around and sell or give away. We also sell our chicken's eggs when we have an abundance.
But what about hot sauces? Baked goods? Home goods you could be interested in? Jewelry?
I don't intend to make a full time job out of selling these items, unless that is somehow how it pans out. Plus, being in Wisconsin, I can't just have a roadside stand up all year.
In my garden it is WAY easier to grow spinach than basil. I usually grow basil in big pots so I can keep and eye on it but have masses of spinach out in the garden. So, when I make pesto, I find that cutting at least 50/50 with spinach makes the basil go much farther, you can barely tasted the spinach especially if you like your pesto garlicky and cheesy. I try to keep jars of it in the fridge to make quick pasta meals when it's hot and all else fails.
Almost all of my garden is doing fantastic this year. It's probably due to "Cowboy Wayne" and the load of stuff from his ranch that he brought us in early spring. But, this year seems especially amazing. Look at this turnip. These things are usually not good when they get this big but this one is crunchy, juicy, sweet... perfection with humus for lunch.
Most of the food in the world is produced using animal power and human power.
The reason we could not defeat North Vietnam or Afghanistan is because their food and fiber production system was immune to centralized disruption.
We dropped more tons of bombs on North Vietnam than all the combatants in WWII dropped on each other.
They went on about their business. Nobody missed a meal.
Water buffalo.
In Afghanistan it's donkeys.
Either way. Bulletproof.
life comes full circle
we knew what made us happy
Because it still does!
*As a child animals always brought me joy! I grew up with all of your typical farm buddies. But the some were special. The first thing I did when we got our homestead was find some goats! One of my current babies on the right. Chino.