Jon and Teri's Fn Delicious Day! & Field Tour July 7

Sauteed beets with greens, baby spuds with butter, and stuffed zucchini with quinoa, beef, and panko bread crumbs.  MMMMmmmmm!!!

The ingredients in supper.  A feast of baby potatoes!

Jon and I spent the day weeding at our farm on Monday... Got most of the weeds cleaned up, and I had a look at how the crops are progressing.  We also took the opportunity to "quality control" inspect some of the crops by eating them!  Had a FN DELICIOUS lunch and supper.  

Gorgeous beets, swimming in butter

Lunch ingredients: spinach, zucchini, CUCUMBER, TOMATO!!, basil, dill, baby carrots

Lunch: Jon's home baked bread with zucchini & dill & dutch Gouda (Thanks Auntie Joan!) omelet, sauteed baby carrots and zucchini, spinach, tomato, cucumber basil salad.  Scrumptious!

(L-R) Spuds, Carrots, Green Onions, Beans, Potatoes, Tomatoes & Peppers

Little Watermelon Plant

Jon is trying some tomato trellising at our place, to see if we can make any improvements over our production system.  Next year we hope to have a tunnel over this part of the field!  Made with mostly farm "foraged" materials, short of 3 t-posts we had to buy.

Lil' Green Onion soldiers.  This has been my weeding nemesis this season.  Proud that it has stayed mostly weed-free so far. 

Vegetable Marrow Squash... Can be eaten fresh like a zucchini, or as a storage squash.  Special to those who know it and love it-- I will have to give it a try some day soon.

Vegetable Marrow Squash getting pretty big!

Whoops!  I think Sherri makes these big guys into zucchini noodles.

I had company while walking the field

Mmmm... I eat you!

Golden Zucchini

The first Katrina cuke.  It was delicious!  Jon's favourite.

Beautiful zucchini flower and Sunny Delight summer squash

Samson the garden cat.  If only we could teach him to weed!

These are called "citron".  They look and grow like watermelons, and can be made into a delicious preserve or marmalade (which we will make and have for sale in the fall).  I have a book from the 1800's exploration in Manitoba where they are mentioned as a crop that grows well here.  The seed is heritage and has been saved by Mom over the years, as we don't know of anywhere to buy it.  These are the Red Seeded Citron, the seeds are actually red!

Blacktail Mountain Watermelons from Jocelyn and Chris.  I think of those two awesome folks that I miss from Nova Scotia every time I see these watermelons, growin' along nicely!

A RED TOMATO!!  Plants from Peter at Marriott's Greenhouse, our closest neighbour.  This is what Jon and I call a "potting mix tomato"-- The fruit formed while they were in the greenhouse, so taste is not quite as good as one grown in the soil.  But, it's July 7th, so we ate it and it was DELICIOUS!

I eat you.

I parmigiana you, later.

For now, we are CPB (Colorado Potato Beetle) free at Myrah's Farm.  I am knocking on wood as I write this.  They haven't found us, and as we want to certify our farm as organic in the near future, we will not have any defenses if they do.  Mom's spray is not on the permitted substances list for organic production, and we can't afford the one that is right now.  So, if we get an infestation, out the potatoes will come.  There are at least 2 acres at Mom's farm that will be used for storage.  Once they have at least this many flowers on them, there are large enough spuds to sell, and right now the gold nuggets are $6/lb, and worth every penny!