A sunny sunflower

We loved this view of a large sunflower in the back garden bed with the blue sunlight bouncing off the neighbor's plum tree. Yesterday, we took a gourmet picnic to the concert at St. Edwards Park and heard a great bluegrass band. Afterwards, some of the Triple E Environmental group dropped by the funny farm. They got to meet the future farmers (kids) and the girls (chickens) and check out the garden. We got to sent everyone home with tomatoes and zucchini (yeah!!).

The garden is really beginning to churn out tomatoes and green beans. Soon, we'll also have tomatillos and peppers. The weather forecast for the next 10 days looks cool and cloudy, so we may have to wait a bit longer for the sun lovers.

Here's the CSA farm box from Full Circle Farm. As always, it was another fantastic one with apples, apricots, plums, lemons, blueberries, mango, cucumber, tomatilloes, red and green peppers, chard, baby spinach, fennel, purple carrots, and savoy cabbage.

Here's a beautiful flower that we transplanted from the garden beds to the front yard. It seems happy enough to have bloomed. Is this a gladiola? I can't remember.

Tonight for dinner we made a family favorite skillet chili rellanos (see recipes) with fresh avocado pico de gallo, spanish rice, and homegrown green beans. All was delicious!

The score for the zucchini 100: 75-10 given to EEE members + 3 more harvested today = 68 to go.