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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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Author Archives: Lou Murray, Ph.D.
Return from Great Smoky Mountains National Park
My column in the Huntington Beach Independent this week is about the hail storm that hit our rental car as a group of us photographers were driving from Nashville to Townsend Tennessee on April 27. We got caught in the … Continue reading
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Beautiful spring day in the garden
Here is a photo tour of flowers in bloom plus shots of the many kinds of fruit and veggies growing in our “urban farmlet.” Continue reading
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Tagged apples, backyard chickens, flowers, Fruit, Gardener's Supply Company, green beans, photos, raised beds, vegetable garden, water garden
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Harvest Monday, May 9, 2011
My home garden provided us with over 6 lbs of fruits and vegetables this week. The harvest year is off to a good start. My goal for the year is 500 lbs of produce. Continue reading
My plot at the new community garden is planted!
My plot at the new Huntington Beach Community Garden is planted. Continue reading
Happy Easter, Happy Spring
As you can see, I haven’t gotten back to blogging regularly. Getting the new community garden up and running took an inordinate amount of time. That plus working on my own garden at home seems to have eaten up all … Continue reading
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Busy, busy
I’ve been up to my ears battling a badly flawed restoration plan for the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve and helping to get the Huntington Beach Community Garden up and running. My spring garden is in; no time to photograph it. Continue reading
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Harvest Monday Feb. 7, 2011
This week’s harvest was a pathetic 6 oz. of chard, Komatsuna and snow peas plus 5 eggs. I’m hanging my head in shame at such a miserable harvest. Continue reading
Harvest Monday January 31, 2011
This week I harvested a lemon and my first homegrown ginger and made a wonderful pork tenderloin with citrus-soy-ginger sauce, served with homegrown yams. Continue reading
What I do for a living–and a Harvest Monday
Here are some photos of my last two Orange County Conservation Corps classes at Bolsa Chica and Crystal Cove, plus my garden harvest for the past week here in southern California. Continue reading
Harvest Monday, Jan. 17, 2011
I last reported a harvest on December 6, so I have some catching up to do. I’m afraid that my new addiction to using the Wii Fitness Plus and watching movies on our new flatscreen TV with home theater sound … Continue reading
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