Jesse77

2010 Garden

Jesse — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:39:43 +0000

3/17/10: Returned from 10 days in CA to find garlic, tulips, daffodils & crocus’ green shoots emerging. Strawberries leaves growing too. A few onions and leeks are returning from last year’s crop. Hopefully they will grow flowers with lots of seeds for me to keep! They were heirloom crops. I just learned that these and many of the brassicas will do this, send up a flower the second year.

3/18/10: The moon was void-of-course but I had free time so I weeded where last year’s garden was and ripped out the stuff that had frozen in last year (I waited too long to take out the kale and brussels sprouts, thinking I might just get a tiny bit more out of them but alas, no). The only place I didn’t weed was the asparagus bed. With advice from an old timer I salted the bed. Apparently asparagus can handle the salt but of course it will kill everything else. I emptied about a pint of salt into the box. Is that enough? Hopefully this will keep the bugs away too? I have no idea. I cut back all the growth last year because I read that leaving it attracts the bugs… maybe we’ll have asparagus soon? I’m a little bit concerned that only one rosette of mullein is growing in my mullein patch. Last year the mullein started to grow around April 1st, so there is still some time, but if my memory is correct, mullein is one of the very 1st things to grow… ???

3/20/10: 1 yellow crocus bloomed. Snowdrops came up through my sheet mulching! Very warm and dry weather.

3/23/10: 2 white crocuses bloomed. Raining and cool. I heard from some library patrons that daffodils are blooming just a little South of here.

3/24/10: 1 purple crocus bloomed. Raining and cool.

April Calendar

Jesse — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:41:57 +0000

One Week of Food Consumption, Jesse & James

Jesse — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:01:07 +0000

*Homegrown (as organic as possible)

Grains & Other Starchy Foods:

7 cups organic long-grain brown rice (3.5 cups dry)

4 org. potatoes*

1 cup buckwheat groats

3 cups gluten-free oatmeal

6 cups org. brown rice flour

2.5 cups org. tapioca flour

1.5 cups org. white rice flour

1 cup pinto bean flour

.5 c quinoa flour

3/4 cup cornmeal

1/4 c guar gum

1/3 c (aluminum free) baking powder

1/2 t baking soda

(these ingredients made 4 loaves bread, 1 pie crust (cherry pie), 1 cornbread and 1 dish of apple puffs)

Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts & Seeds:

2 T acerola powder

1.25 cups sunflower seed butter

1 cup celery tops*

1/2 cup fresh parsley*

7 org. bananas

2 spaghetti squash* (did not have at the time of the picture so I used buttercup squash instead)

4 org. pears

1/2 cup almonds

2 org. yams

6 org. plums

12 org. apples

1 acorn squash

4 lbs. org. carrots (some*)

2 cans unsweetened cherries (for cherry pie)

1 bag org. cranberries

2″ ginger root

1 cup org. shiitake mushrooms

5 org. onions

5 org. garlic cloves

1 big can org. crushed tomatoes

5 small tomatoes*

3 T dried oregano*

3 T dried basil*

2 T dried thyme*

1 bunch collards*

1 org. lemon

2 T sage* (most for burning)

Condiments & Sweeteners:

1/4 c celtic sea salt

2.5 T black pepper

1.25 cups maple syrup

3/4 cup raw honey

1/4 cup homemade mayo

1/4 cup storebought mustard

6 T maple sugar

1.5 t homemade vanilla

1 T raw vinegar

1/2 cup date sugar

1/4 cup olive oil

5 whole cloves

1/2 T ground cloves

1 stick cinnamon

1/4 T ground cinnamon

1t cardamom

1/2 t paprika

1/2 t coriander

1/2 t caraway

1/2 t cumin

1/2 t celery seed

Dairy:

1/2 lb raw Amish butter (picture shows Kate’s butter b/c we ran out of amish butter)

4 oz. swiss cheese

7 c whole yogurt

4 oz. creme fraiche

Meat, Fish & Eggs:

14 fish oil capsules, Carlson’s

31 cage-free eggs

2 lbs. ground free-range turkey

2 whole chickens

6 cups home-made chicken broth

1 lb. stew beef

1 lb. ground buffalo

1/4 cup bacon grease, from Amish nitrate-free bacon

Snacks & Desserts:

1 Larabar

1 cup popcorn kernels (making 3 bowls popcorn)

Prepared Food:

21 vitamin C pills

14 vitamin B complex pills

3 rice tortillas

Beverages:

2 gallons of homemade kombucha*

2 cups apple cider

mullein tea made with 7 mullein leaves*

3 store-bought kombuchas, Synergy

2 c fresh juice (apple, ginger, carrot, beet)

6 c seltzer

10 cups herbal tea (mint, peach, raspberry leaf)

7 gallons filtered water (probably more)

Restaurant Food:

1 breakfast burrito

1 croissant

1 chicken taco

4 beef tacos

1 quesadilla

1 bean & cheese burrito

1 house salad

4 cups chips & salsa

Miscellaneous:

5 cups cat food