One year, by accident, I planted our spinach just a little too late at the end of summer to get a fall yield. However, this accident lead to a wonderful surprise in the spring. By the first week in May we were able to harvest 6 pounds of the most succulent spinach. The plants were established […]
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In anticipation of the Topopo Salad
Most of what we grow in the summer doesn’t go into the ground until mid-to-late May because of the threat of frost in this region. However, there is still plenty to plant after the ground has thawed and the soil can be worked. Over the last couple of weeks we planted all of our lettuce, […]
Chinese Red Noodle Bean Curry
We were taking inventory of our freezer over the weekend to see what we had left from out fall harvest last year. We discovered that we still had two bags of Chinese Red Noodle Beans. We were given these seeds as a gift from my brother two years ago from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and now they […]
I ♡ Kale
I am so ready for spring. I am craving greens to eat and I want to see green. I want to lose the gloves and hat and sit on my deck and feel the warm spring sun on my face. We are not quite there yet, but we are close. Here in southeast Michigan there […]