Our Happy Acres

This week’s harvest added some baby spinach to the mix. I made a wilted spinach salad with some hot balsamic vinaigrette, orange sections and walnuts.
The spinach was harvested when I did the final thinning from one of the greenhouse beds. I have more thinning to do, so we’ll have that to eat next week perhaps. [...]

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One of the new things I tried last year was planting lettuce and other greens in plastic window boxes. I did it because I was doing a seminar on vegetable gardening and I needed something portable to illustrate how easy it was to grow lettuce and other greens. I also wanted to show how decorative [...]

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After reading about other gardeners and their Harvest Mondays for a while now, I have decided to join in with my own harvests. Every Monday over at Daphne’s Dandelions folks link to posts about their weekly harvests. Thanks to Daphne for hosting this fun event. It’s great to see how others are doing!
Our harvest this [...]

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The New Year started off with bitter cold weather here. Overnight lows got down in the single digits, and the temps did not get above freezing for 11 days in a row. Despite that, we still have winter hardy veggies growing here. They may not be thriving in the cold temps, but they are surely [...]

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The fall garden is still giving us plenty to eat this year, even after several nights with the low temps dipping into the teens. The growth of everything has pretty much slowed to a crawl, but that’s to be expected with the combination of short days and cold temperatures.
These komatsuna greens were growing unprotected in [...]

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At Happy Acres our favorite way to prepare choi is to stir-fry it with a little garlic and mushrooms and a splash of soy sauce. It’s also good added to mixed stir-fries. This soup is a different way to use the prolific vegetable. It’s easy to make, light and delicious. The mild flavored choy blends [...]

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