Well, officially there is about a week and a half of summer left, but the damp and cool weather makes it feel like fall is already nudging in. Our garden is still producing lots of food though, so the harvest is far from over. We have broccoli, cabbages, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, greens, cilantro, pickling cucumbers and carrots. My dahlias are all coming into bloom, which makes for vases of pretty flowers in the house. And the chickens...well, they are giving us up to 12 eggs a day! So, fall may be approaching, but we are still eating well. I thought I'd share some photos of the season. Doesn't that salad above look lovely? That's how I've been eating these days (from the garden and the farmer's market).
Farmer's market salad mix with alpine strawberries from my herb garden.
Peach, tomato salsa from the market.
More market snacks.
Blueberry frozen yogurt from some of the u-pick berries we got.
Homemade mini peach pops from Jones Creek Farm peaches.
Some of our first eggs.
A mini rose from one of my mini bushes.
And all those gorgeous dahlias.
Rosemary and sage vinegars from my herb garden.
Transparent apples from a tree in our backyard. These are early summer apples. By the end of August they are all gone. They aren't good to eat, either too sour, or too mushy if overripe, so I made them into applesauce. Plus, I had pounds of frozen apples from last year in the freezer, so I made apple butter and sauce with those to clear out the freezer and make space for our frozen blueberries, raspberries and lamb that Charles butchered.
Apple mush.
And now we have a pantry full of canned goodies: dilly beans, peaches in Riesling syrup, apple sauce, apple butter, apple-oregano syrup, raspberry jelly, vinegars and pickles. It'll be a nice treat this winter. For now, we'll keep enjoying the fresh produce.
Well, officially there is about a week and a half of summer left, but the damp and cool weather makes it feel like fall is already nudging in. Our garden is still producing lots of food though, so the harvest is far from over. We have broccoli, cabbages, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, greens, cilantro, pickling cucumbers and carrots. My dahlias are all coming into bloom, which makes for vases of pretty flowers in the house. And the chickens...well, they are giving us up to 12 eggs a day! So, fall may be approaching, but we are still eating well. I thought I'd share some photos of the season. Doesn't that salad above look lovely? That's how I've been eating these days (from the garden and the farmer's market).
Farmer's market salad mix with alpine strawberries from my herb garden.
Peach, tomato salsa from the market.
More market snacks.
Blueberry frozen yogurt from some of the u-pick berries we got.
Homemade mini peach pops from Jones Creek Farm peaches.
Some of our first eggs.
A mini rose from one of my mini bushes.
And all those gorgeous dahlias.
Rosemary and sage vinegars from my herb garden.
Transparent apples from a tree in our backyard. These are early summer apples. By the end of August they are all gone. They aren't good to eat, either too sour, or too mushy if overripe, so I made them into applesauce. Plus, I had pounds of frozen apples from last year in the freezer, so I made apple butter and sauce with those to clear out the freezer and make space for our frozen blueberries, raspberries and lamb that Charles butchered.
Apple mush.
And now we have a pantry full of canned goodies: dilly beans, peaches in Riesling syrup, apple sauce, apple butter, apple-oregano syrup, raspberry jelly, vinegars and pickles. It'll be a nice treat this winter. For now, we'll keep enjoying the fresh produce.
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