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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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Peep’s (or Cheep’s) first egg! And a pot roast recipe
One of our new hens laid her first egg this morning. And here is a pot roast recipe using a solar oven and tomatoes that I froze whole last summer. Continue reading
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Tagged backyard chickens, beef pot roast, dinner, energy conservation, food, global warming, hens, photos, pot roast, recipe, solar oven, southern California, Sun Oven, tomatoes, urban chickens
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We got a FREEZER!
We got a new home freezer, a new section of sidewalk in front, and spring is busting out all over. Continue reading
Start of a new year
Here is an update on my January garden and home renovation projects. Continue reading
Harvest Monday on Christmas Eve, 2012
As if there isn’t enough going on today, I’m going to do a Harvest Monday post. I’m nearly done wrapping Christmas presents, but need to stop to make breakfast before lunchtime rolls around. I am going to make an omelette … Continue reading
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Tagged backyard chickens, citrus fruit, Harvest Monday, hens, photos, southern California, vegetable garden, vegetables
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Sandy Hook, deck work, and Harvest Monday, December 17, 2012
It is hard for me to think of anything other than the suffering families in Newton, CT. I feel their pain. We lost our son Bob seven years ago in December, and it still hurts. Bob would have been 50 … Continue reading
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Tagged grieving, Harvest Monday, loss of child, Newtown CT, raised beds, Sandy Hook, vegetable garden
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Crazy weather, Thanksgiving, catching up
Time for some “catchup” in garden reporting. This marinade for fish was fabulous. I grated the peel from a small Meyer lemon using a microplane grater. I added the peel and juice to 1 T of olive oil, 1 tsp … Continue reading
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My December Garden: The good, the bad, and the ugly
A southern California garden in winter is a mix of spring and fall, all at once, with rain. Some of it is good, some bad, and some is downright ugly. Continue reading
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Tagged artichokes, cabbage worm, compost, gardening in containers, green living, nature, photos, raised beds, southern California, vegetable garden, yams
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A Hot Harvest Monday, November 5, 2012
Dang global warming anyway. It got up into the upper 80s here today, maybe 90. This is not supposed to be happening in November in coastal southern California. It has been hot ever since, um, August I think. Normally the … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, avocado, butternut squash, ginger, Harvest Monday, Kitchen Cupboard Thursday, pork, recipe, small garden
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Baking an apple pie and Harvest Monday October 29, 2012
I used harvests from my garden to make an apple pie and a wonderful pork-butternut-apple dish that I cooked in the solar oven. Continue reading
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Tagged apple pie, global warming, Harvest Monday, solar cooking, solar oven, Sun Oven
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