Our Happy Acres

This week marked the first of the asparagus harvest. It was only two spears, but we were pretty excited nonetheless. We are always eager for the start of asparagus season, since it is the first of our seasonal fruits and vegetables to appear.

More are popping up already. This is our third year after planting, and [...]

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I took a walk around the gardens this week to take some photos and see how things are coming along this spring. I think it’s nice to document the progress everything is making, and the photos come in handy later on when dates and details get fuzzy.
The window boxes I planted early in March have [...]

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This weeks harvest was pretty much All About Spinach. I harvested over 2 pounds of it, and it went into a variety of dishes.
We made some fresh whole wheat spinach pasta, which turned out a lovely shade of bright green. We made another batch of plain whole wheat pasta, and we cut both of these [...]

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It has been a busy couple of weeks here at Happy Acres. One thing I have been doing is adding on to the kitchen garden space near the greenhouse. I have two goals here – first to increase the amount of growing space and second to reduce the amount of lawn to be mowed.
To save [...]

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March is really turning into the month of greens. I pulled all the early planted pac choi in the greenhouse beds as they were showing the start of flower buds.  There were still plenty of edible greens though, and it didn’t affect the quality one bit. I made a batch of Green Choi Soup for [...]

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We had another nice haul of greens this week. The second “thinning” of spinach yielded a little over a pound. I made four plantings this year, about double what I grew last year, because we like spinach so much. It’s also the best time to grow it here, or at least I think so. Fall [...]

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