Final total

This year we donated 3175 lbs of produce to the Interfaith Food Bank. This was valued at $7937.50.

In the five years we have been growing, we have donated over 16000 lbs of fresh produce with a value of $35,600.

Thank you to all our volunteers!

September 16 Harvest

Post frost - we're still harvesting!

We have now reached the grand total of 2300.5 lbs of produced delivered (valued at $5751.25).

Eggplants

September 16, 2014 Harvest

Harvest Update

Last weeks deliveries (lbs)

Beets	62.5
Beets	10
Eggplant	3.5
Carrots	3
Beans	1
Zucchini	1
Peppers	7
Lettuce	21.5
Tomatoes	1.5
Swiss chard	4.5

Total = 266 lbs ($665)

Fried Purslane !

One of the most prolific weeds in our garden is Purslane (Portulaca oleracea). It propagates readily and a good amount of our weeding effort is dedicated to Purslane.

But maybe we need to look at purslane differently? Check out this blog posting by Ashley from Lethbridge on Fried Purslane.
https://blog.etsy.com/en/2010/edible-weeds-fried-purslane-with-off-the-hooks/

Ashley's recipe

Fried Purslane
Serves 2

2 cups (500 ml) fresh purslane leaves (and stems, if young), washed
2 Tbsp (30ml) butter or olive oil
1/4 cup (50ml) dry white wine
2 Tbsp (30ml) freshly squeezed lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Freshly grated parmesan cheese to taste

Bring water to a boil, add purslane, reduce heat and simmer for 3-5 min. Drain.

Melt butter or oil in a heavy skillet. Add blanched purslane, wine, and lemon juice — cook until liquid reduces slightly. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper, grate fresh parmesan cheese on each serving.

Serve hot and enjoy!


And here's a recipe for Purslane Salad from Amy Chaplin.

Late spring purslane salad with flax chive dressing

5 baby turnips, cut in ¼’s
5 radishes, cut in ¼’s
5 baby carrots, cut in half lengthways
10 sugar snap peas, trimmed
2 large handfuls purslane

Dressing
2 tablespoons flax oil
Juice of half a lemon
½ teaspoon tamari or shoyu, or more to taste
Black pepper
6 chives chopped

Place turnips and radishes in the basket of a steamer and steam 2 minutes. Add sugar snaps and steam 1 minute more. Remove from heat and spread out on a platter to cool.

http://www.coconutandquinoa.com/2010/06/12/purslane-salad-with-flax-chive-dressing/

Harvest on July 14

On July 14, we harvested:

Peppers  2.5 lbs
Lettuce  39.5 lbs
Kale  7 lbs
Swiss chard  16 lbs
Beets  63.5 lbs

This brings our total to date - 150.5 lbs valued at $376.25.

Our first harvest

Yesterday (June 23), we harvested our first produce - 22 lbs of spinach!

Weeds!

We pulled weeds yesterday - purslane, red root pig weed.....

Our emergence is patchy for some crops and will require some reseeding.

Beans

Spinach and beets

2014 Seeding

As of Friday, May 16, 2014, our seeds are in the ground. Now we wait for weather and timing to plant out our tomato, eggplant and pepper seedlings. We used our new seeder. While we had to make some adjustments, it works great. We hope this will save us from the thinning of carrots and beets that takes considerable effort. Thanks to PSAC Agriculture Union Social Justice Fund for funding the purchase of this seeder.

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