Neighborhood yoga

Shawna has been leading a neighborhood yoga class on our patio or in our basement, depending on the weather.

Garlic!

Landscaping at Serin's

Berry Feind

A selection of berries we have on the farm.  

Did I make a mess?

My helper

Viking war paint anyone?

Garden Developments

I finally got the trees I wanted for the patio

It was a serious challenge to get them in place.  We discussed at the nursery how they would pot them in place, but that didn't happen. Oh so heavy.

Pretty though

Other garden growth

The semi restored area down the cliff

Pretty flowers

Tomatillos

So, as the season fades into winter, I've been able to sneak just a few more tomatoes and peppers off the plants, making me reluctant to clean the beds up just yet.  The weather has been crazy wet lately, so yesterday I decided to do a last look though before everything rotted.  Much to my surprise, there was tons of stuff!  Look at all of those tomatoes.  And more importantly, look at the tomatillos!  The plant I put in this year really never looked very good.  Flopped all over the ground and generally was pathetic.  In september I pulled off a few pathetic tomatillos, enough to make a small batch of salsa.  But when I looked yesterday, I found all of these!

This does not include the two fridge drawers of eggplant and the drawer of peppers I picked before the weekend.  The peppers in this pic are actually from Shawna's garden.  

So, I made salsa verde and bread and butter jalapeños.  And I though I was done canning for the season.  Good thing I had gotten lazy and the canner was still sitting at the top of the stairs waiting to be put away in the basement.  

Full pantry

Though its not the can pantry I have been promised, we got these shelves from Josh and Shawna and it was just in time because look at the canned goods I have this year.  

No jam, we still have some from 2 years ago.  This year was the year of the pickle and the tomato.  

Spaghetti squash.  I haven't brought in the butternut yet.  

deck flowers

I really like how the deck flowers turned out this year.  My new phone takes good pictures.  Hence, deck flower pics!

Popcorn

Bee care

Tomatoes

Another big batch of tomatoes.  Keith came over and we made tomato paste with these ones.  Yummy stuff

Bountiful harvest

Holy tomato!

I think I will not run out of dilly beans this year

happenings

Eric's beard is so long I can braid it.  

Makings for dilly beans!

Garden dinner

Pretty garden

Isn't the garden getting pretty?

Persian tarragon pickles

Summer of the pickle

So I planted lots of cucumbers but I don't eat them except in pickle form.  And they are very productive.  So, it looks like it will be the summer of the pickle!

Growing garden

More garden

Blueberries

Corn and squash

Flowers will go here

Reject fishing poles from Tim for our bean tp