Plant something: Peppers (g), tomatoes (h & g), tomatillos (g), sweet potatoes (g), peanuts (g), painted pony beans (g), lazy housewife beans (h), bush green beans (h), cowpeas (h & g), watermelon (h), canteloupe (h), strawberries (h), herb garden (you name it, it’s in there), 3 or 4 types of squash (h & g), zucchini (g), sunflowers (g). I think that’s all. And it will be for a while as most of my space is full. At least until I start pulling cool weather crops in a month or two.
Harvest something: Eggs, lettuce, spinach.
Preserve something: I preserved my sanity when I stayed home 4 days last week with my kids. Ha!
Reduce waste: I have started adding the cardboard tubes from toilet paper and paper towels to the compost pile. I used them as holders for plants (which seems to be working out great) but when I had enough I was just recycling them. I think composting is a better use for them.
Preparation and Storage: Nothing. Cleaned up the storage shelves so they are ready to start accepting new food stores.
Build local food systems: Continued with previous efforts. Received this great new book to read called A Nation of Farmers. I’m looking forward to it!
Eat the food: About the same. With Cub Scouts and baseball we are eating less meals at the table and more sandwiches (well, not me, I’m not eating bread right now) so we aren’t really eating our stores up like I would like. But, it’s a trade off between doing activities and doing this.
2 responses so far ↓
Ben // May 15, 2009 at 4:31 am |
use lettuce instead of bread or some other substitute.
fatguyonalittlebike // May 18, 2009 at 8:16 pm |
I’m all over the lettuce instead of bread. It’s actually pretty good!