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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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- 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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First Harvest Monday of 2012
My garden year is off to a rip-roaring start. My harvest goal for 2012 is an ambitious 350 lbs. I say ambitious because that is 115 lbs more than I’ve grown in either of the past two years. However, that … Continue reading
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Tagged avocados, citrus, garden goals, Harvest Monday, heirloom seeds, Native Seed/SEARCH, oranges, organic vegetables
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We have eggs!!!
Miss Hillary, our newest hen, laid two eggs in the past two days. Hurray! First eggs since Oct. 31. Harvest this week was over 3 lbs, mostly navel oranges and yams. Continue reading
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Tagged backyard chickens, Harvest Monday, urban chickens, vegetable garden, vegetables
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Last Harvest Monday of 2011 and I have a harvest!
We got over three pounds of produce from the home garden this past week. Not bad considering that we were in Albuquerque NM until Christmas day. The home garden is doing well, but my community garden plot needs some serious work. Continue reading
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Tagged avocados, community garden, Harvest Monday, Huntington Beach Community Garden
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Next to last harvest of the year
We’re down to nearly the last harvests of 2011. Three pounds of produce this week, not bad. But no eggs. Continue reading
Harvest Monday, November 21, 2011
This week’s harvest of five pounds of produce puts me at a year total of 222 lbs, just a hair short of last year’s harvest of 224 lbs. With six more weeks left, I should easily beat last year’s harvest poundage from my little garden. Continue reading
How to Make Soldier Bean Soup and Onion Puree
Check out these great recipes for Onion Puree, Broccoli and Cauliflower stir fry, and Soldier Bean Soup that I made this week. Continue reading
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Tagged bean soup, broccoli, cauliflower, garlic, onion puree, recipe, Soldier beans, stir fry
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Setting Goals in the Garden
With only six weeks left in the year (I know, scary isn’t it?), it is time to start thinking about my gardening goals for next year. Last year, I had hoped to grow 500 lbs of produce. Then, when problems … Continue reading
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Tagged acre, backyard chickens, chickens, consumption, eggs, food, Fruit, garden, goals, per capita, productivity, urban chickens, vegetable garden, vegetables
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A rant about global warming
I grow a garden. I buy locally grown produce, organic whenever possible. I compost our food scraps and garden waste, keep chickens for eggs, and save rainwater in barrels to supplement tap water for yard yuse. But I should be … Continue reading
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Tagged global warming, International Energy Agency, Kim Kardashian, power plants
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Harvest Monday, November 14, 2011
I harvested 5 lbs 11 oz of produce the first two weeks of November, but am getting no eggs from my hens. Continue reading
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Tagged backyard chickens, Gardener's Supply Company, Harvest Monday, Komatsuna, mizuna, photos, raised beds
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Making Sicilian-style Chard
Here is a recipe for Sicilian-style Chard. Continue reading
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