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HARVEST TOTALS 2019 as of July 31
81 lbs FRUIT
37 lbs VEGETABLES
118 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 193 EGGS
GOAL 200 lbs produce plus 300 EGGS
HARVEST TOTAL for 2016
FRUIT
VEGETABLES
TOTAL PRODUCE plus 285 EGGS
GOAL 200 lbs produce plus 350 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2015 as of
FRUIT
VEGETABLES
TOTAL PRODUCE plus 466 EGGS
GOAL 200 lbs produce plus 400 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2014
86 lbs FRUIT
81 lbs VEGETABLES
167 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 530 EGGS
GOAL was 250 lbs produce plus 450 eggs
Harvest Totals 2013
91 lbs FRUIT
74 lbs VEGETABLES
165 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 770 EGGS
GOAL = 350 lbs PRODUCE plus 400 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2012
73 lbs FRUIT
218 lbs VEGETABLES
291 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 320 eggs
GOAL = 350 lbs PRODUCE plus 350 EGGS
Harvest Totals for 2011
47 lbs FRUIT
187 lbs VEGETABLES
234 lbs total Produce plus 313 eggs
Harvest Totals for 2010
58 lbs FRUIT
166 lbs VEGETABLES
224 lbs TOTAL PRODUCE plus 463 eggs
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Sunset Climate Zone 24 Coastal Southern CaliforniaTop 10 most popular Posts
- Squamous cell carcinoma -- why I haven't planted my spring garden yet.
- How to make guava jam
- Growing fruit on my urban Southern California mini-farm
- Harvest Monday in southern California, Dec. 7
- We survived the heat wave--Happy St. Patrick's Day
- Our first two eggs
- Happy Easter, Happy Spring
- What I do for a living--and a Harvest Monday
- Baking an apple pie and Harvest Monday October 29, 2012
- Spring flowers and summing up the harvest so far this year
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- Bee Girl at Sky Minded and Ever Growing Garden, hens, and bees in Santa Fe, NM.
- Curbstone Valley Farm A garden, orchard, chicken blog set in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California
- Diary of a Tomato New England veggie garden and recipe blog
- Down on the Allotment “Matron’s” blog about vegetable gardening on an allotment in London, and dog training
- From Seed to Table Michelle gardens ten miles from the Pacific Ocean in the hills of Carmel Valley of California, with vegetables and chickens.
- Garden to Wok Norma Chang’s cooking and gardening blog.
- Graphix Muse Garden Spot An attractive garden blog from Maine
- Greenhorn in the Garden Turling’s new vegetable garden in southern California.
- Grow It, Can It, Cook It Caroline’s northern California blog about growing and preserving produce.
- Henbogle Ali’s beautiful and productive vegetable garden with chickens in Maine.
- High Desert Garden Mac’s vegetable garden in the harsh climate of the high desert
- Liz at Suburban Tomato Liz’s Down Under vegetable garden blog.
- My Little Vegetable Garden Bangchik and Kakdah’s darling vegetable garden blog in Putrajava, Malaysia
- Our Engineered Garden A square foot vegetable garden in Russellville, Alabama
- Our Happy Acres Villager’s southern Indiana garden and macro photography
- Sicilian Sisters Grow Food Stefaneer and Denise write about their northern California gardens with fruit, veggies, bees and hens.
- The Corner Yard Ribbit’s square foot vegetable garden in Georgia.
- The Enchanted Earth Meredith’s vegetable garden in South Carolina.
- The Gardener of Eden Robin is hosting “Using the Harvest” Thursdays
- Urban Veggie Garden Blog Dan’s nifty vegetable and canning blog from Ontario, Canada
Useful Links
- American Livestock Breeds Conservancy A non-profit dedicated to preservation of heritage breeds of livestock
- Blotanical A terrific network of gardening bloggers
- California Native Plant Society
- Corbahead Tools Blog Gardening tips from a terrific Wisconsin garden tool company
- Gardener's Supply Company My favorite online gardening catalog store
- Local Harvest Where to find local farmers who sell direct to the public, farmers markets, CSAs, etc.
- Native Seed Search a source for seeds and other products of the American Southwest
- Orange County, CA Master Gardeners Useful gardening advice for southern California
- Slow Food USA Promoting food that is grown and prepared the old-fashioned way
- Tanaka Farms A farmer’s blog from our local CSA organic farm in Irvine, CA
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Harvest Monday and Kitchen Cupboard Thursday, April 23, 2012
Here are some photos of my spring garden right after a dense morning fog coated everything with beautiful dew. Continue reading
Box Car Willie and Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter
Here is a “how to” about how to transplant and grow tomatoes, plus a list of the tomato varieties that I’m growing this year. So far. Continue reading
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Tagged Amish Paste, Box Car Willie, Brad's Black Heart, Bull's Heart, determinant, E B Stone Sure Start, Early Girl, German Johnson, heirloom, how to, how to grow tomatoes, indeterminant, Mammoth German Gold, Mortgage Lifter, Paul Robeson, Peason, Russian Big Roma, Super Marzano, tomato, transplant
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Spring flowers and summing up the harvest so far this year
My yard is in full bloom with flowers and fruit trees. Visit my blog to see photos. I’ve added up my food production so far this year, and my little urban farmlet has produced 144 eggs, 43 lbs of fruit and 33 lbs of vegetables to date in 2012. Continue reading
First day of spring and the week’s harvest
Thanks to my citrus crop, I topped 9 lbs of harvest this week. I am also having fun with my solar oven. Here are two more recipes, one for pot roast and one for a chicken casserole. Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, Harvest Monday, how to, Italian chicken casserole, pot roast, recipe, solar oven, vegetable garden
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Why I garden
There are a lot of reasons why I garden. And it isn’t because I love being cold and muddy or enjoy sweltering over a stove on a hot August afternoon canning tomatoes. It links us to the land, gives us greater variety and fresher produce, and provides food security and food safety. And it makes me happy. Continue reading
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Tagged destress, food safety, food security, fresh produce, organic, reasons to garden, variety
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Solar oven cooking with my new Sun Oven
Yesterday I made a fabulous pot roast in my new Sun Oven. I really love solar oven cooking. Continue reading
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Tagged bake, cook, cooking, how to, pot roast, recipe, solar cooking, Sun Oven, tips
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Cooking with the sun!
My new solar oven arrived yesterday, and I’m cooking our first dinner on it–beef stew and rice. Continue reading
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Tagged chile cheese bake, Greek beef stew, photos, recipe, solar cookbook, solar cooking, solar oven, Sun Oven
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Blooming Monday, March 12 2012
Over the past two weeks, I harvested a tad over three pounds of fruits and vegetables from our yard and the chickens laid 20 eggs. Photos of many things in bloom. Continue reading
San Jacinto Wildlife Area
Vic and I drove to the nearby San Jacinto Wildlife Area near Hemet and Moreno Valley on Sunday. There have been reports of a rare gyrfalcon there this winter. The bird is definitely there, but it has eluded us so … Continue reading
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Squamous cell carcinoma — why I haven’t planted my spring garden yet.
I had a squamous cell carcinoma removed from my face, but all did not go well with the surgeries. Fortunately, the cancer is now gone and I’m healing nicely. Continue reading
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Tagged dermatologist, HMO, keratoacanthoma, photos, plastic surgeon, skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, surgery, surgical mistake
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