Tag Archives: harvest

Fall on the urban seed farm

Things have grown amazingly well this year on the urban seed farm. I really couldn’t be happier with my new growing spot. Despite the drought and soaring temperatures this season, plants flourished and are in the process of kicking out a tonne of seeds. I can barely move in my home with all the seeds […]

Seed harvesting

  It has been a pretty great growing season here in Peterborough. I am a little late on posting this as this extended fall has had me out in the garden lots, and not inside by a computer so much. It was a great season for grains & beans, an pretty good season for tomatoes & […]

Seed Saving Saturday

dried hot peppers: makes collecting the seeds a lot less painful  gorgeous sunflower pretty phenomenal that one seed can turn into so many more …. and this is only one of the heads that came one sunflower seed. seed saving is magical and addictive  last of the tomatoes into the bank for winter  pretty nice […]

Adventures in Canning

wasabi pickled beans! wasabi, ginger, garlic, beans, soy sauce & rice vinegar tomato salsa  pickled beans  pickling beans  pickles!  peach salsa!   making peach salsa  pickled beets & carrots of many varieties. gorgeous   wines preserved in jameson’s & honey: who knew such perfect concoctions existed.  plums in red wine. another delicious idea   pears in jameson’s and […]