5 onion rings positioned on a blue & beige plate

Busy season 😜 #medawislagrows purple onions for #medawislatastes onionrings for #medawislasights Olympic rings 😁🕊💜

Green cinnamon basil behind purple opal basil glow pinkish under growlights

Purple opal basil and African blue basil destemmed into metal bowl, with bright green cinnamon basil waiting on the sideboard

African blue basil, including flower buds, fill metal bowl with scattering of purple opal basil leaves

Green inside when it's white outside keeps up spirit! 🌱 #medawislagrows

Making two #pizzas tonight; so, 6 bulbs of #garlic to be roasted, right? Yup, definitely! 🤣🌱💜 #medawislagrows #medawislatastes stay tuned...

Sunflower seeds and pepper flakes speckle ribbon slices of white parmesan cheese covering green spinach noodles in a blue bowl with a torn piece of bread in the top and a fork sticking out the left side

Home grown purple onion slices reflects in a metal bowl on the top end of the cutting board and freshly harvested basil leaves pile on the lower end

Deep purple Opal Basil slivers drape over green pasta noodles in a blue & beige bowl

Torn pieces of garlic bread rest on top of green spinach pasta

Galaxy dinner, post 3/3, finally. #medawislatastes spinach pasta and garlic bread with #medawislagrows ingredients 🌱

Globe of browned, roasted garlic smeared on a basil-flecked dough before rolling into final proof

Dark green spots pop in swirl of a bread loaf headed for final proof; brown, roasted garlic oozes from center and seams

Galaxy shaped bread loaf pulled from oven in perfect dark brown toastiness

A dark brown Italian loaf torn open reveals flecks of basil and shine of roasted garlic cloves

Galaxy dinner, post 2/3, named mainly for the bread loaf, an Italian loaded with roasted homegrown garlic and basil #medawislagrows what #medawislatastes (Forthcoming post, more ingredients & final devouring)

Green towering spinach leaves blended with oil & eggs as wet ingredients inside ring of light-yellow semolina & flour dry ingredients that combine to form pasta dough

Towering spinach leaves color pasta dough green

Green towering spinach pasta depicts spirals from being rolled, folded and sliced into noddles

Pasta noodles dusted in flour await being cooked

Galaxy dinner in multiple posts, to share all the photos! #medawislagrows towering spinach and more #medawislatastes ingredients 🌱💜⭐️ (Forthcoming: namesake bread photos, post 1/3)

Opal basil sprouts through wet soil in 72-count (small) cells

Basils, vining spinach and thyme fill out their 72-count seeding cells

Cinnamon basil unfurls over Thai basil behind and opal basil in front, all awaiting transplant

Up-potted basils join a cactus under grow lights, carnivorous plants to right help keep fungus gnats down

2025-2026 indoor grow is in full swing, just in time for Solstice month 🌱⭐️🌲 #medawislagrows

A yellow-orange glob of winter squash pops from snowy, grassy ground, freshly tromped by boots

Yellow-orange guts of a winter squash smear across snowy ground with brown, dead vegetation around

Winter in Maine! No, not Tweety Bird having a bad day...This is what happens when bad squashes are left in the garden that gets snowblown in winter #medawislalaughs #medawislagrows

Rainbow swiss chard harvested & laying in the sunshine

Eat the rainbow! Swiss chard going into new soup recipe... #medawislagrows Soon #medawislatastes Recipe link: adventuresincooking.com/broccoli-cha...

Highbush cranberry burns red on the left, as the serviceberry on the right reveals its orange, in front of the yellow-green elderberry dropping more and more leaves everyday

Where'd the season go? Oh right, summer drought followed by fall food processing... peak foliage ended but the shrubbery stands out! #medawislagrows

Fresh-egg pasta.looks like lemon-yellow underneath a creamy Alfredo and opal purple basil and white shredded parmesan

Grilled zucchini latkes topped with a tomato bruschetta/tabbouleh and leftover, homemade dill dressing, with a side of charred shishitos (at 9 o'clock)

Especially when zucchini season is still strong?...so: Alfredo one night and latkes the next... #medawislagrows #medawislatastes

Purple onions are a new fav! With green tops from recent watering, they lay bulb forward on the dirt in the sun to cure

A bumble bee does her thing on a fuchsia new england aster

Purple onions (red bull variety) lay with green tops on garden mounds

Brasella alba "rubra" spinach climbs bamboo poles shooting out green leaves; gray fence and green hedge in background; green posts and wire fence in foreground

Around the homestead: harvested onions to cure in the week of no rain that continues the 2025 drought; bumbles smother blooming asters; the new spinach vine surprised with delight! #medawislagrows #medawislasights

Monarch feeds on a red zinnia in #Maine

Yellow green shishito peppers charred from the grill glisten with oil & salt before being devoured

Several multi-colored sunflowers line a flower patch, with rudbeckia & zinnia in the meix; beeblm and asters in the background

Subtle signs of summer surrendering to autumn... #medawislasights #medawislatastes #medawislagrows

A woman's hand holds a 7-clove bulb of garlic for scale above a crate full of cured garlic bulbs

Two crates of garlic bulbs from sorting cured bulbs

A truck bed full of garlic freshly harvested; two milk crates of garlic sit in wheel barrel on right

September in #Maine ...best garlic year ever! #medawislagrows a front yard of garlic without photographic evidence 😜🌱💜

More reds were used in the making of sauce than these striped and yellows bawhaha

Tomatoes for sauc, also #medawislagrows

Green thyme, purple onion half and purple opal basil leaves on a cutting board

Yellow--from yokes--pasta dusted in flour

2 slices of Italian bread above dish of pasta covered in sauces with cheese covered eggplant parmesan

Folded sheets of pasta sliced on cutting board, yellow from egg yokes

#homegrown #homademade eggplant parmesan over homemade pasta with #local eggs; sauce with #medawislagrows basil, thyme & purple onion. #medawislatastes eggplant--still on the fence...

Purple off-white aster spark against green foliage in late summer sun

Also love asters! #medawislagrows

Neon red petals of the cardinal flower pop against the green background and periwinkle of globe thistles

Love the cardinal flower!flowers! #medawislagrows

A white-striped black butterfly sits on a field of green leaves in a garden

The white & black winds of a butterfly splay open on top of green leaves in a garden

This white admiral butterfly has seen better days...resting on gold beet leaf #medawislasights #medawislagrows

Pink Berkeley tomatoes, on bottom, split from drought then watering; top right, Lemon Boy tomato contrasts with bright yellow; drying on a black & white kitchen towel

Purple opal basil leaves rest on a blueish plate...

Stacks of caprese, salt & peppered, with homemade bread toast squares in the background. Red tomatoes, white mozzarella and green cucumbers pop on top of dark purple basil

Even ugly tomatoes make the most beautiful dinners! #medawislagrows #medawislatastes #foodie #gardening

Love that! Here are mine with a sundew flower photo bomb 🤣 #medawislagrows

Birthday garlic! 🎉🌱💜 #medawislagrows

Cornflowers blooms deep blue in green background

White blossoms of yarrow pop in field of green leaves

Red yarrow flowers explode worth green background

Happy July! 🌞💜😎 #medawislagrows

Tiny black instar on a green fennel frond

Fingers steady fennel fronds in the wind to focus on the tiny black instar

Tiny black instar on a green fennel frond is camouflaged in shadowy background

Can you find the 3 instars? Swallowtail caterpillars! Good thing 24 fennel were planted 🤣🌱😎 #medawislagrows

A garlic scape emerges from the green leaves of planted garlic

Don't garlic scapes look like little gnome hats? Skinny gnomes... 🤣🌱😜 #medawislagrows

Two wide rows of exposed soil with green and purple plants dotted throughout

A yellowed squash plant surrounded by racoon prints

Garden mounds ready for pepper and tomato seedlings

Plants in ground! Herb patch includes tarragon and purple lettuce heads. Squash patch includes racoon prints. The jungle houses tomatoes and peppers. #gardening #medawislagrows

Two wide rows of exposed soil with green and purple plants dotted throughout

A yellowed squash plant surrounded by racoon prints

Garden mounds ready for pepper and tomato seedlings

Plants in ground! Herb patch includes tarragon and purple lettuce heads. Squash patch includes racoon prints. The jungle houses tomatoes and peppers. #gardening #medawislagrows

Second half of transplants came outside to harden off this week, only the reseeded peppers and few slower plants remain inside. #medawislagrows #gardening

A blue sky full of wispy clouds and two bald eagles

Blueberry flowers on a highbush that is all leafed-out, in the shrubbery

Surprise sunny day! Birding and gardening 🤘🐦‍⬛🌱😎 #medawislasights #medawislagrows #Maine

A bright white frog sits in the middle of a bog planter; a turtle bug in the foreground; red pitcher plant between them

Two colorful quake bugs in the middle of a bog planter; tall pitcher plant to the right; short, red sundew all around

Bugs in the bog! A #penpal sent me a homemade 3D printed frog to add to my carnivorous plants #medawislagrows #bogs