30 lb. box filled with large orange and red tomatoes
the Autumn colours are stunning this year!
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Sweet Basil, Oregano, Thyme and Bull's Horn sweet peppers
Pre-cooking the peppers by steaming them on the stovetop
A pan of stuffed peppers with tomato sauce and basil leaves; ready for the oven.
A pan of stuffed peppers after baking. Sprinkle some parmesan on top near the end of the bake.
I made a delicious meal by stuffing sweet horn peppers with ground lamb, rice, herbs, garlic, onion. Delish!
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a slice of red pepper in the shape of a heart
A photo of me holding two horn shaped red peppers on each side of my head.
The devil made me do it! 👹🌶️
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Metal colander filled with chopped cucumber, zucchini, and onion. A potato masher is pressing down on the vegetables to squeeze out liquid/juice.
Red California Wonder bell peppers in a bowl
Several pint jars of Caponata
three zucchinis in a water barrel. A hand holds one of the zucchinis.
Today I canned Caponata.
It's a good way to use up all the zucchinis and cucumbers... and tomatoes, sweet peppers...
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A metal pail full of red, Dolgo crabapples.
A green fig drooping from the branch
We're harvesting figs and crabapples today.
Drying the figs and juicing the crabapples for jelly and fruit wine.
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A large Vintage Wine tomato, shaped like a heart and with a line that looks like a smile
Smile for the camera.
I love the brindle-like pattern of Vintage Wine tomatoes.
and they taste good, too.
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7 pint jars of cucumber relish
Grated cucumbers draining in a metal colander
Markermore 76 cucumbers on a red tea towel
Relishing the fruits of the earth...
Today I made 7 pints of cucumber relish because
Winter is coming!
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Five pint jars of homemade salsa
Today's harvest of tomatoes and sweet peppers
we love dancing the salsa at earthfarm
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A full cluster of blueberries being picked by my hand.
We're enjoying a bumper blueberry year at earthfarm! 😋🫐🫐🫐
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Western Hornet fly drinking water
Leopard slug climbing on a net
Wild Bumble bee in the lavender flowers
Honey bee on Kale flower
earthfarm.ca, a sanctuary for little critters 🐝 🐜 🐌 🐞
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Mint, parsley and leeks
Bulgar and chickpeas
the Moosewood cookbook Felafel recipe
I mint to tell you,
you were parsley right
to leek the recipe
tonight...
Felafels and tabouli
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Tayberry juice in a pot heating up to make jelly
A tray of tayberries. They are large and juicy, a cross between raspberries and blackberries.
Tayberries make the best jelly.
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Five Danish Ballhead cabbages lying in a row
2. 547 Kilograms
Five heads are better than one.
Looks like we're making sauerkraut today. 😍
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Italian Bull's Horn pepper red?
Beet red?
What's your favourite flavour of red?
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A Western Tiger Swallowtail with a broken tail on pink Sweet William flower cluster
A Western Tiger Swallowtail with a broken tail on pink Sweet William flower cluster
A Western Tiger Swallowtail with a broken tail
stopped by earthfarm today
to drink from the Sweet William flowers.
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Currant red?
Vintage wine tomato red?
Raspberry red?
Cherry red?
What's your favourite flavour of red?
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We finally bought an orchard ladder... and started picking the cherries which I'll can, freeze, and dry. Winter is coming. #SmallFarmLife #earthfarm #HomeFarm #regenerativefarming #permaculture #growyourownsupper #vegetablegardening #sustainablefarming #Gardening
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July 4th, a good day to harvest garlic at earthfarm.ca
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shoot for the sky!
these sugar snap pea shoots are over my head,
and they're delicious steamed with butter
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zucchinis
cabbage head
earthfarmer, watering carrots (under remay row cover)
tomatoes in box planter
earthfarm abundance at Solstice time
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the Sugar Snap peas are flowering
Memorial garden with fragrant Pinks in full bloom
All the Sweet Peppers are planted now... may they flourish. I will add more bone meal to encourage flowers and fruit
Rhubarb is the taste of Spring
What's up at earthfarm.ca?
peas, pinks, peppers and rhubarb.
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Early Girl tomatoes in old bathtub planter next to the house
Paprik peppers
Cucumbers
Tomatoes in the hoop house
The nights have been cool but we finally planted out our tomatoes and cucumbers. I'm holding off on the sweet peppers til we get a run of warm days.
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the slug patrol enjoying a bath at earthfarm.ca
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this tree frog is hanging out in one of our blue water barrels 💚
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At earthfarm.ca we don't use a roto-tiller or tractor. No, no, no.
We use a terrier-tiller.😜
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moving tomato seedling from 3.5 inch pot to 1 kg dairy containers.
Tomato seedlings in a South-facing window. Bring on the Sun!
repot BEFORE they become root-bound. This one is just starting to send roots out the bottom of the pot.
And there are still more tomatoes hoping for a new pot.
April at earthfarm.ca... repotting tomato seedlings.
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Hügelkultur hole: bury your weeds here. Plant squash and grow.
Tomato seedlings growing in a South-facing window
Time to start cucumbers and squash
Hügelkultur, tomato seedlings and seed starts at earthfarm.ca
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claytonia perfoliata, a.k.a., miner's lettuce, has succulent, sweet leaves and stems for spring salads
Salad mix: chives, parsley, kale, miner's lettuce, chickweed, arugula, mint and sage
enjoy the salad days of spring with fresh greens
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Chives, a.k.a., the poor man's onion
Garlic bed
8 rows of sugar snap peas under remay
the daffodils are budding up
What's germinating at earthfarm?
We've got buds, shoots, roots, and, yesterday we planted 8 rows of sugar-snap peas.
Spring has sprung!
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Chitting white Russell Burbank potatoes indoors in egg cartons
144 leek sprouts leaping up under a grow light
Ox Heart tomatoes in 3.5 inch pots in a South-facing window
Plug tray with 27 sweet peppers (Italian Bull's Horn, California Wonder and Paprik) and 33 tomatoes (Ox Heart, Early Girl and Vintage Wine)
We're chitting our seed potatoes and transplanting the tomato and sweet pepper seedlings from the plug tray to 3.5 in. pots
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where we grow
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