Saturday, July 16, 2011

July Wk. 2: 10 - 16

Temperature range:
  • lows: 62 - 75 F
  • highs: 65 - 97 F
Rainfall: 1.7"

Harvested:
  • blueberries
  • okra
  • tomatoes
  • cowpeas
  • cucumbers
  • thyme
  • oregano
  • rosemary
  • strawberries
  • sweet basil
  • dill
  • melons (green nutmeg)
  • summer squash
Seeds saved:
  • calendula
  • cowpeas
  • yellow cosmos
  • carrots, Scarlet Nantes
Preserved:
  • blueberries, 4 quarts frozen
  • blueberry jam, 6 pints canned (from 2010 frozen berries)
  • mozzarella cheese, 11 pizzas worth frozen
  • okra, 1 quart frozen
  • cukes, 1 gal crock of lacto-fermented sour dill pickles
Egg Counts:
  • Sun. 7
  • Mon. 3
  • Tues. 4
  • Wed. 2
  • Thurs. 6
  • Fri. 3
  • Sat. 3
  • Week's total: 28
Eating Our Own:
  • fresh eggs
  • fresh tomatoes
  • fresh cucumbers
  • fresh cabbage
  • fresh blueberries (on cereal)
  • fresh summer squash
  • fresh melon
  • fresh herbs
  • goats milk:
    • yogurt (on cereal)
    • mozzarella cheese (pizza!)
    • sour milk (pancakes)
  • canned figs
  • canned sweet potatoes
  • canned pickle relish
  • canned blueberry jam
  • canned pizza sauce
  • canned green tomato salsa
  • frozen bell pepper
  • frozen blueberries (smoothie)
  • frozen cantaloupe (smoothie)
  • stored carrots
  • dried cantaloupe
  • lacto-fermented Swiss Chard


    2 comments:

    1. Hi Leigh,
      I just found your blog. Absolutely brilliant!
      I Love the lists, the egg count, the harvesting and planting dates,...
      I'm moving into an old farm house soon and we're also planning similiar stuff(fruit, veg, animals, diy, etc) so your experiences are greatly appreciated.
      So I'll be following you a lot and I need to catch up and read all the post since 2009 :)
      Thanks a lot.
      Greetings from far away, Austria, Vienna.
      Lukas

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    2. Lukas, thanks! Congratulations on your farm house. You will really enjoy everything that comes with it. I'm not sure this blog is all that readable in one sense, but I am glad to have it as a record.

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