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strawberries + dog = sweet

12 March 2009 By Kari 1 In garden updates, gardening, organic food

Molly is almost as excited about the stawberries turning red as we are. She insists on “checking” on them everytime she goes out in the yard. She sniffs and nudges, but (so far) doesn’t take a bite. She’s even sweeter than a perfectly ripened organic strawberry. I want to do a post on gardeners’ dogs [...]

Bernese Mountain Dog, organic gardening, organic strawberries

organic “baby” broccoli

05 March 2009 By Kari 3 In garden updates, gardening

I wanted to share a quick post about our on-going organic broccoli harvest. As I described in the first broccoli harvest post, after you cut the large center head, “baby” broccoli shoots continue to grow along the stalk for about six weeks. It’s been about 5 weeks and they show no sign of slowing. It [...]

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sequoia strawberry update

23 February 2009 By Kari 1 In garden updates, organic food

I just realized that’s been a while since I shared photos of our strawberry plants. There are a number of little white flowers and small green berries! I thought we would have to wait until summer before we saw any fruit. The seedlings we planted are Sequoias, which is a “June-bearing” variety (along with Douglas [...]

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drink your greens!

12 February 2009 By Kari 2 In garden updates, organic food, recipes

Here are more beautiful greens from our harvest: organic red leaf lettuce, green lettuce, Swiss Chard and spinach (the carrots were purchased from the Farmer’s Market, but they add a great flavor). Drew called it our “Plate of Prosperity”.
We washed it all up in preparation for a green smoothie. We both needed a mid-day pick-me-up. [...]

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broccoli harvest follow up

06 February 2009 By Kari 0 In garden updates, organic food, recipes

So we harvested the broccoli earlier this week. (Sorry, it’s not a great photo.) I almost made the very mistake I advised against – waiting too long. I kept thinking, “I’ll wait til it gets just a little bigger…” Well with the little heat wave we had courtesy of the Santa Anas, the broccoli stopped [...]

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our organic spinach

19 January 2009 By Kari 0 In garden updates, organic food

Check out our beautiful spinach. Picked fresh from our organic garden this morning for our breakfast scrabble.
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behold: organic broccoli

04 January 2009 By Kari 0 In garden updates

We’ll we asked, “what’s going on with our broccoli” and Mother Nature answered! After trimming the large broccoli leaves (and sauteing them with a little oil and garlic for a delicious organic side dish), we saw her! Right there in the center of the stalks, hiding slightly behind some new leaves – a recognizable broccoli [...]