Category: Gardening

  • Ample Harvest – A Good Use for Excess Garden Produce

    Ample Harvest – A Good Use for Excess Garden Produce

    Our garden is really producing right now. I have way more tomatoes and yellow squash than I can use. Every day, I go out and pick more. So I was excited to hear about Ample Harvest. They promote sharing excess garden produce with local food pantries. This reduces unnecessary food waste.

  • Koi Cam

    Koi Cam

    Just for fun we put the GoPro in the fish pond in our front yard. We got a “fish-eye” view of all of them swimming around. This isn’t the most exciting video in the world, but I do find it soothing and relaxing. We are already talking about which angle we want to see next.…

  • Goodbye Garden: Cooking Up the Last Fried Green Tomatoes

    Goodbye Garden: Cooking Up the Last Fried Green Tomatoes

    I cooked up the last of the green tomatoes a few days ago. They keep pretty long in the refrigerator, but it was time for them to go. And with that we say goodbye to our garden produce this year. I made fried green tomato sandwiches with bacon, pickles, and chipotle mayonnaise.

  • Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet,

    Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet,

    for tomorrow I may have to eat them. It is good to remember that words matter. It is so easy to hurt someone with a careless comment, and it might come back to you later. Choose your words carefully.