Growing Food

 

Since we have been blessed with lots of good soil we are able to grow nearly everything we want to eat. Each year we try to grow a little more, in hopes that someday we will be able to grow an entire year’s worth of food (grains, legumes, vegetables, fruit, maple syrup, honey, meat, eggs…maybe even milk and cheese). This year we grew lots of vegetables for ourselves and some for our local farmers’ market. It was a slow spring because of all the snow, but in the end the plants did pretty well. Next year we are hoping to grow more legumes and a few grains; I’d like to be able to grow our own oats (we eat a lot of porridge) and buckwheat (to eat instead of rice and to turn into flour). Here is a photo recap of this year’s garden:

This was what April looked like, so the garden went in later than we had hoped

We started our seeds in our “sun room”

The seedlings moved to the “green house” (the front of our woodshed) once the weather improved

We played in the dirt a lot in preparation for planting

Planting the garden was a family activitiy

Green!

Early-season harvesting

Lunch from the garden

Mid-summer

Good food surrounded by weeds 🙂

All from the garden (except the rice)

A cozy nook to play in while I processed vegetables