Nimai's first volunteer day on the farm! Nathan returned as well. It was great to have the extra hands to help weed and mulch what we have planted. Dave has mowed down all the cover crop and we have about 4.5 rows completely planted. Mulching around the bell peppers we just put in the ground. The cover was pretty light on this end and the weeds are different and more evil than what we've been dealing with at the top half of the plot. Unfortunately, this half has endure the brunt of those familiar jokes "Wow, you guys are really great at farming weeds!!" Ag2 flash backs....
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Tomorrow february 27th is a global day of action for Occupy Our Food Supply where people are putting on events all over the world to promote sustainable practices and local food and all kinds of good environmental hippy dippy peace and love and I want to do something to be a small part of it. So Sara Beautiful Unicorn Stuart (real name, real unicorn) and I are having a little potluck of all local food at her cottage in Kaimuki! Kinda last minute, it's tomorrow, 645ishpm, it will make me cry tears of joy if you'd like to come with a local dish. No promises on an elaborate spread, if you come empty handed and expect to only eat what i'm making I hope you like kale + turmeric + ginger in 5 forms, it's ok with me if you only want to eat my kale, or if everyone brings kale, it's the thought that counts I'm telling myself. Give me a call, text, or email if you want to come! http://events.ran.org/occupyourfoodsupply/events/show/5880 Pasta is always my classic default but now it's a lot more colorful than when I was in college. I didn't even use to heat the sauce, I would pour it from the can onto the noodles and it was naked other than that. Shameful.
James and Margaret's plot is RIGHT NEXT to ours so I have no idea why their kale and chard is so superior to ours. They have kale, chard, cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, basil, flowers, more, and a damn nice walkway
. Arugula- Easily grown in a pot like this or in the ground. It doesn't seem to spread out much and it seems to grow quickly. Eaten fresh from the ground and early it has a spicier taste then arugula I've had in salad mixes from the grocery store. I'm obsessed. Even though we have multiple plants we don't have enough to grab for a whole salad so I like to pick it to throw in tacos and sandwiches. BEST pizza topping. Mostly though I grab a handful as I'm leaving the house and put it straight in my mouth like a rabbit. Sometimes I get carried away and that's how I learned that even if the plant is ready to be eaten, you can't eat it all at once, or there's no more plant. Leaving just one or two leaves is just as bad.
Collards- Probably the one plant I don't eat raw on the regular but when I'm hungry and foraging, it's been done. Our collards have grown into beasts quickly with little effort on our part. We chop it up and eat it with pasta, soups, and stir frys. Lacinato Kale and Curly Kale- Another one that is easily obliterated by my over-enthusiasm. Often eaten as I am walking back and forth from the washing machine in the backyard, also good for salads, tacos, sandwiches, soups, anything, everything. These have been easy to start but none of ours has grown into some of the beasts I've seen in neighbors yards. Maybe not enough sunlight? The bugs nibble on this a lot when it's really small and first going into the ground but that doesn't last long Manoa Lettuce- So great to have around. Has become a little overgrown and tastes a little more bitter as a result (I think?) Basil- Easiest herb to grow. Always throwing in with pasta and sandwiches and tacos and everything. Beet- A hundred year old man that is somehow related to our landlord took advantage of Dave being under the influence of American Spirits and Sierra Nevada by convincing him to give over that beet when it got big and beautiful!!! Sneaky man!! Compost bin- No worms or black soldier larva flies, just a bin of our food scraps and green waste. |
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