The garden's bounty is at its most generous with things like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini, winter squash, root veggies, onions, garlic and more all piling up.
My house is often filled with veggies I am supposed to somehow cram into the freezer, into jars, into the dehydrator, and best of all straight into my family's tummies!
If you're like me and you love veggies fresh from the garden and want to eat as many of them as can be in the short season that we have here in Maine, then this blog post is for you!
If you’re like us, you’ve been babying those precious tomato plants in the garden for months now. Since Memorial Day to be exact! Seems like forever to wait for a ripe tomato!
Then, all of a sudden, your tomatoes start to ripen. And by September, you’re swimming in tomatoes!
That’s how we feel on the farm, too!
Farmer Gene and the crew harvested well over 1000 pounds this week alone.
It’s warm August and you’re spending time in the lake, in the kayak, and outside picking berries… Winter is the furthest thing from your mind.
Everywhere you go, people are talking about the humidity--and this year, the rain. You join in, but you have a nagging feeling in the back of your mind reminding you that soon things will change. Soon enough we’ll all be complaining about the cold and snow.
I did not grow up farming. Not even close! (Suburb outside of Austin, Texas)
I had no idea what “harden off” meant as a kid until I started working on a vegetable farm in my early 20's.
Now that I've run my own organic vegetable farm with my husband for over 15 years, I do know a thing or two about hardening off plants (and what happens if you don't!).
But, if you're like I was and you're not sure what I'm talking about, no worries! I'm here to help because I want you to have success the first time!
Have you ever been stuck inside cooking for your family when you'd rather be outside enjoying the weather, gardening, or playing with your kids or grandkids?
That's happened to me and here's an important part of how I tackle and overcome it without sacrificing serving good food.
I serve home cooked food exclusively at our house, heavy on the veggies, of course!
Yet, I spend very little time in the kitchen, relatively.
I don't run to the store all the time. (We've all got better things to do, right?!)
One of the most used veggies at our house is a humble one.
It is borne out of the earth with dirt clumped on it's roots and smeared on it's skin. It's pungent, even smelly at times, and not really one you eat straight out of the garden.
But none the less, it's just about the most used vegetable at our house!
