Hello Beautiful!

Look what I found in the garden today.  These are so pretty I have to classify them as flowers AND vegetables.  These are the Spring Blush Tendril Peas from Baker Creek.  http://www.rareseeds.com Can't wait to see if the pea is a different color, stay tuned for an update on that once they arrive.

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Front Yard Garden

Today we started the first bed in the front yard area.  This marks the first in ground area we have started at this house.  We have had the bed prepping with chicken manure from the neighbor since last year so now we have really rich dark soil that should be just what the squash are..

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Pickled Onions

We are still working our way through the 50 pound bag of onions that I got.  Seemed like an awesome deal until you have to do something with all of them.  We are about halfway through the bag with a lot of work left to do. Today's endeavor was pickled onions that I canned for..

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ONIONS!!

We have a local couple that has decided to help us all support the farmers on the east side of Washington that have a surplus of produce that they cannot get rid of.  So we got 50 pounds of red onions for $10!  We have turned most of them into fermented onions and pickled onions..

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Garden Update – 04.24.2020

Today I had a helper in the garden so we took advantage of a break in the rain to get some root crops planted. We planted Parsnips, Carrots and Beets in one of the raised beds in the front garden.  Also I realized that the back yard fence is another trellis just waiting for a..

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Kamut Sourdough

This weekend I tried a new recipe for sourdough using a combination with Kamut Flour. I wasn't sure it was going to work as it didn't look like it rose as much as my regular sourdough recipe. However I was pleasantly surprised with the oven spring and the awesome sourdough flavor.  It had a stronger..

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