For those of you who grow your own food, perhaps you feel like me. When I go to the garden with my big basket and walk around the veggie patch seeing what's ready. Then after five minutes or an hour, I walk back up to the house loaded with food. At these moments I feel extraordinary rich and say to myself (often out loud, which I know is a sign of madness) that "we'll never starve".
I had just one of those moments when I went to the patch after having been away in New Zealand for work. Here is a pick of my basket
And when it was laid out on the kitchen chopping board, it looked like this (save the garlic, which I laid out to dry)
Did I mention that I found a HUGE mushroom in the mushroom compost we put on top of the raised garden beds? Well, I did and check out the size of it. It took two days to use it up in omlettes and a chicken pie.
The strawberries have really come on in the last week or two and I found a whole bowl's worth waiting for me (and a couple of cherry tomatoes thrown in)
I didn't take a picture of the bowl of mulberries, but they went on my muesli too.
Your produce looks wonderful. I love the feeling that picking my own veggies gives me too :)
ReplyDeleteDunno with my patch if we'd NEVER starve, but I'm certainly helping supplement our food purchases :)
wow, I'm impressed with the strawberries and the mushroom! I love going to the garden and picking food. Sometimes I'm disappointed that I picked too much the day before and I don't really need to pick anything new, but I do anyway.... the chickens and cow can always have something from the garden anyway! There's always something to eat, I think the challenge now is to get the timing right so that there is variety all year.
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