It’s been a couple of weeks since we recorded the video for this, and since then, the beans have expired and we have begun harvesting the beets, turnips, and some greens. This was a weird year for many people and our summer garden was a little blah, as well. But our fall garden looks great so far!
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A crisp, clean, white chicken coop is beautiful to behold. With dust, mud, dirty chickens and animal foot traffic on a farm, they don’t stay that way for long. Once a year, we like to freshen up the chicken coop limewash. We’ll show you how we do it and give you a tour of the coop in the process.
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You might say sweet potatoes are glorious! And that would be fitting for this relative of the morning glory. They are another way God provides a delicious, nutritious vegetable that can be stored fresh for months. Let’s see how we did with our sweet potato harvest.
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Parsnips are a less common vegetable, not taking up much, if any, space in the grocery store produce departments. But their virtues make them well worth a place in the garden. Our parsnip harvest was small, but we were delighted nonetheless for what came from their small spot in our garden.
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We love soup at our house. Not only is it a wonderful seasonal dish for fall, but it can be a delicious, nutritious and quick meal when fall and winter days are busy. By using tomato sauce and grated onion, we don’t need to use the blender. As a result, this cream of tomato soup is almost as easy as the congealed stuff from a can, but so much more delicious.
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Raw winter squashes are beautiful, yummy and great nutrition on cold days. But they are hard and difficult to cut. Cutting, peeling, cubing… forget that! Frankly, if I’m going to be cooking all my meals at home, I prefer to find the easy way to do most things. Plus it’s fall and you need to be able to make healthy versions of all the pumpkin spice things without too much effort. So today, I offer the absolute easiest way to roast winter squash and the simplest squash casserole. Easy enough for a weeknight.
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Growing garlic is so easy, even I can do it! I bet you can, too!
There are two types of garlic, but many varieties.
Hardneck varieties have larger cloves, but fewer per head, develop a flower stalk also called a scape, can be easier to peel, produce better in colder climates, don’t store as long. This type will have cloves that develop around a hard stalk that runs up the middle of the head.
Softneck varieties have more but smaller cloves per head, don’t develop a scape, can store longer
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