Fun on the Funny Farm!

The flower bed is planted for our pollinators.

We loved this bright floral.

Here's our bean tee pee. Also in this bed we now have nasturtium flowers and winter squash.

Here's a potful of radish starts, planted with a marigold to control nematodes. Also in pots, we have lettuce, cilantro, basil, mint, and potatoes.

Our peas are starting to grow up their frame. They are coplanted with pansies. This week we did lots of planting. Our potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, collards, broccoli, cauliflower, Chinese Cabbage, onions, carrots, and herbs are all planted. We also compost enhanced our existing plants, lots of herbs and all the berry bushes. We're waiting a bit longer to plant basil and pepper plants.

The CSA farm box was a terrific one. We had to take the photo in thirds. This week we received organic broccoli, green onions, leek, avocado, carrots, lettuce, and artichokes for the veggies.

For fruit, we received organic apples, mango, oranges, bananas, and strawberries.

We also had mushrooms, Italian sausage, ground pork, and ground beef. We're not huge meat eaters, but when we do we like the pasture fed, no antibiotic meat offered through the farm cooperative.

The family has been doing a great job this week eating from the garden, farm box, and farmer's market. In the garden, we are currently harvesting lettuce, chives, basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, and green onions

Today for dinner, we had an Italian country menu featuring steamed artichokes (farm box) with a jalapeno (last time's farm box) aioli sauce (eggs from our chickens), brushetta, and an organic whole wheat spaghetti tossed with Italian herbs and black olives. Dessert featured the last of the rhubarb (farmer's market) crumble with a fan of strawberries (farm box).

Today was farmer's market day. We found leeks, rhubarb, asparagus, hazelnuts, tuna, handmade soaps, another tomato plant, two orange mint plants, and a custom made silver leaf necklace. We try to support our local artisans at the market as well as the growers.

Our weather has finally make it into the 70's. The giant bumble bees are buzzing about.

And the irises finally bloomed!