Gotta Love Harvest Time

Not everything has gone right this year.  The carrots and turnips got too much water and turned to mush in the ground.  I didn't get the lettuce planned early enough and it bolted on me when the hot weather hit.

But for the most part it's been a great year for the garden.  Not using any pesticides or chemicals of any kind in the garden, I have had bug and disease problems in the past.  Nothing but the usual blister beetles, aphids, squash bugs and tomato caterpillars, but not this year.  Not only totally disease free (as in the past - been pretty lucky) but no bug problems to worry about this year.

The Yukon Golds didn't produce as much as I was hoping, but for the small square I planted I got almost 10lbs of delicious potatoes.  Good size and very tasty.  Will definitely plant more of them next year.

The green beans and bell peppers produced very well as did the herb garden as usual. 


The tomatoes of course went crazy overboard as they usually do. 

 

Harvest season has begon

I noticed the first red flashes of colors from the tomato vines this past weekend.  Thought I'd better check to see what I could harvest from my 1 Acre Farm.

Everything on this table from the aromatic herbs, red tomatoes, brown eggs, yellow onions, green bell peppers, golden globe turnips and even to the colorful flowers came from my 1 Acre Farm.  Or otherwise known as my backyard.

Not bad for a computer guy.....  Delicious food and I know where it came from and how it was grown or raised.  Oh yeah... the chicken came from my yard as well. 

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Farm Forward ---- Another Great Idea

I copied the text below from the Farm Forward web site.  Another great idea that needs our support.  Please visit their web site for more information.

http://www.farmforward.com/

 

 

Welcome to Farm Forward

In the last 70 years—a tiny blip in the history of farming—cruel, unsustainable factory farms have come to produce more than 99 percent1 of the animals grown in the United States. Globally, livestock now cover 30 percent of the earth’s surface,2 and as a result of modern fishing techniques, scientists are measuring an overall drop in the health and diversity of ocean life. During this same period, these new farming methods have devastated rural communities by reducing the number of farmers in the nation by 85 percent—even as the U.S. population more than doubled.3 Given this scale, it is no surprise that the choices we make when we eat and produce food have a bigger impact on animal suffering, global warming,4 and other major environmental concerns than anything else we do.

Never in the history of animal agriculture have consumption habits and production methods changed so radically and with such disastrous effects. With your support, we are building an anti-factory farming movement that unites small farmer and animal activist, herbivore and omnivore, food industry executive and consumer, poet and academic, ecologist and theologian. Modernizing farming was a good idea, but turning farms into factories was simply a mistake. It’s a recent mistake and, together, we’re going to correct it.

1. 1. Farm Forward calculation based on U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2002 Census of Agriculture, June 2004; and Environmental Protection Agency, Producers’ Compliance Guide for CAFOs, August 2003.
2. 2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Livestock’s Long Shadow, 2007.
3. 3. Environmental Protection Agency, “Demographics,” http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/demographics.html.
4. 4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Livestock’s Long Shadow, 2007.

Know where your food comes from......Supporting Great Ideas

While browsing the Internet I thought I'd check on how my own blog looked.  One of the web parts I have is links to articles related to poultry that are pulled by Google.  This one was really pretty interesting. 

For those of you out there who have not heard of Kickstarter it's a way for people with great ideas to raise the funds to launch their product and/or service. 

One of the ideas that needs some funding is BuyingPoulty.com. 


It's a database of information about purchasing poultry, who's got pasture raised, cage free etc. and what all that actually means.  There is a lot of confusion about the terms.  Most are marketing gimmicks and don't really reflect the way the poultry is raised or processed.

Check out the info below, it's a pretty good idea.

I just backed http://BuyingPoultry.com - Good food. Good farmers. on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/12OWucG