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Country Homeschool in the City
Aug. 4, 2009
20 metre diet
With all the talk of the 100 mile diet, we have been trying to grow some more of our own food here on the farm. Admittedly, we do have a lot more space than the average person but considering that a) I'm really not an outdoors kind of girl and b) well, basically 'a' covers it.
So yesterday DS comes in with some of the bounty he found in his garden and in mine: beautiful full big garlic cloves (thanks to the nice lady/friend at the farmers market who gave him a few bulbs and the instructions on how to grow them. He's all excited about using some of these cloves to grow more for next year.), yellow onions, red potatoes (3) and lots of white potatoes plus some carrots. Add that to the oregano he brought in from his herb patch and the tomatoes I picked from my greenhouse and ta da! A wonderful harvest, oh, and did I mention this was all from our back yard?
We decided to try out our "from the farm" meal with all the above mentioned items plus a steak from one of our cows. We could've topped it off with some milk from the farm but I didn't have enough for all of us (whole big story about being w/o a fridge for a month and only able to keep small amounts of milk in the wee little egg fridge we have).
A whole meal that came solely from our farm! I wonder how many potatoes we'd have to grow to last us all year . And carrots . . . onions . . . garlic . . . would be interesting to know! Just to know, not sure if I want to delve completely into Little House days.
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