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. So if you want to see koi, goldfish, bluegill, and minnows swimming around in our front yard pond, here you go…

  • 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.