Delicious Squash Saturday, Apr 21 2007
This is my mom with the squash this week. We have zucchini, sunburst, starship, and also flying saucer.
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Foggy Morning Sunrise Friday, Apr 20 2007
Sunrises like this make the early morning chores a joy.
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Goating Around Friday, Apr 20 2007
Canela, our beautiful dairy goat spent some time this morning munching down on the delicious leguminous cover crops sown to protect and fertilize our garden soil. As a natural browser, Canela likes the diversity of grains, vetches, peas, and clovers that we plant into our garden rotation. Cover crops fix nitrogen, add rich biomass, improve soil structure, provide habitat for beneficial insects, and prevent wind erosion. And anything that makes our goat happy makes us happy. My goodness her milk is sweet!
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Looking forward to a wedding Friday, Apr 20 2007
Alberto Cipriano spends his day off at the garden planting flowers. We’re looking forward to the wedding of Dan Tyx and Laura Nikstad this August and we want to have bushels and bushels of organic flowers for the celebration. This week we were planting three varieties of sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos.
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Tuesday, Apr 17 2007
Miguel Angel spraying compost tea.
Early in the morning we pass through the garden, a backpack sprayer full of compost tea, and spread this rich, natural fertilizer and biological stimulant around the growing plants.
We make it with a little bit of healthy compost, some molasses, and clean rain water. It seeps for a good while, aerated with a small bubbler, and then we strain it. The result is a brew full of nutirents and beneficial microbial activity. To serve as a natural pesticide, we add ingredients like garlic, hot pepper, and the citric oil we extract from orange peels.
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Monday, Feb 19 2007
This spicy mesclun mix grows like a delicious, living confetti. This mix of Arugula, Red Giant mustard, Bianca Riccia endive, Kyona Mizuna, and Tatsoi, with a mild base of red lettuces, was requested by Chef Marcel of Bistro M in McAllen. Its not only tasty, but packed rich with vitamins.
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