Today's Harvest

Here is some of our harvest for today that will now be dinner tonight...pasta with broccolini, salad using our spinach, baby butter lettuce and beet leaves. I am also going to attempt making a pesto style pasta sauce but using parsley as the main ingredient. We have an abundance of parsley right now, will post recipe tomorrow if successful!

Peas Please!

After some terrible wind and lots of rain, our pea vines survived and now have some little white flowers. Dante has been measuring himself against the pea vines since they started, he was quite excited when they were getting to be as tall as him - now they are taller then me. Soon we hope to have some yummy crunchy pea pods. As a child I used to pick them straight from my Grandmother's garden and eat them raw from the dirt. Stay tuned for our Spring Peas!

Preparing for our Earth Machine

We found a nice spot that for our new Earth Machine, it will get enough sun and is close enough to the house it will make it easier to drop scraps straight from the kitchen. Dante helped to prep the dirt and level it out with me.

Earth to Farm

At our last home my husband made a compost bin by purchasing a big trash can and drilling lots of holes in it, it wasn't pretty but did the job. For the last year, I have wanted again to make a compost bin...we have so many home projects on the "list" and this one hadn't happened yet. The other evening I was cutting some fresh broccoli and lettuce from our farm , it again occurred to me and daunted me - it made no sense for me to keep throwing vegetable scraps in the trash especially when it is so easy to create compost. It is a no-brainer and will at least cut down on our contribution to the landfills plus create some very happy compost for our veggies! So I went back online to the site I had seen months ago through the Santa Clara County Compost Program made an appointment this morning and picked up my new Earth Machine for $50 today! Very excited to start filling it with our scraps, coffee grinds, leaves and grass clippings and then put the finished product back in to our garden - full circle. I plan to set it up this weekend and will post again with a picture of it's new home.

Mixed Baby Salad Greens

Beautiful Beet Leaves for our salads

Broccoli is here...Dante's favorite veggie