The bear came last night. A sow, a big momma, a big hungry momma. Even though we’d hidden the bin,…
Image by urbanworkbench via Flickr As I sit in my home office looking out across the garden at the lightening…
With the first frost comes the need to harvest most vegetables. Our cold room is stacked with fruit and vegetables…
This year we won the Pass Creek Fall Fair competition for the largest sunflower head. The specimen I cut from our garden just before last weekend’s festivities measured a whopping 18 inches across. Since last weekend, I’ve employed my daughters Eden and Nyssa to remove the seeds from this head, which we completed last night. The total seed yield weighed in at just over a pound (478 grams). These are good eating seeds, so now we will dry them off and roast some of them for eating. The rest, we’ll save for planting next spring, or possibly sell off for aspiring competitors!
This week has been a bit of a write-off from the perspective of tackling the to-do and to-write lists. Selecting photos for the Pass Creek Fall Fair exhibition, as well as vegetables, fruit and preserves. Robyn has sewing, crocheting and baking in as well, and the girls are entering some stuff too.
So far, our urban farming harvest has been beautiful. I think these are some of the prettiest things I’ve seen coming out of our garden.