Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has lettuce, mixed mustard, salad turnips, carrots, winter squash, onions or leeks, garlic, tomatoes, peppers, and herbs Field Notes. The big dig has begun! Each year we await a light frost and then Ken gets digging and harvesting. Carrots and winter squash taste sweeter if they have been in the field for colder weather. While Ken is harvesting from the garden, I am cutting tops …
Yes, we can eat local produce year around! Our grandparents had root cellars. They stored fruits and roots and jars of preserved food so they could eat what they grew throughout the year in a cold climate. We have a root cellar. In addition to things like jars of tomato sauce, applesauce, and pressure canned soup stock, we store vegetables in a barrel in sand. We have found the vegetables keep better in sand. …
Each year as Ken harvests onions, we place them on racks to cure. Here is the rack of curing onions. Once we need the space for winter squash, I pull dried tops and rob off dirt, and sort onions by size. The dried tops go to compost or chicken bedding Empty racks ready for squash …
