Day One

Welcome to day one of my blogging experience. This is where I will share with you my experiences of food production (as well as other moments in daily life that nourish me). As you can see from these photos, our back yard is currently rather small. Here you see the end of our tomato crop, and since we planted too late and the frost has come at night, we seem to be stuck with unripe tomatoes. First task - figure out if we can salvage this crop and ripen them, or it's gonnna be fried green tomatoes (and a lot of them!). Any ideas welcome!













This winter I'm venturing into a new experience... Typically, since this is the colder, rainy season in the SF Bay area, nothing gets planted at our place. But meet this year's dinner... Spinach, Chinese broccoli, savoy cabbage and collard greens. Yum. Total cost to date, $45 for soil, window frame and plants. I'll need to tally the "crop worth" as it starts to yield...

The garden area is a little "light challenged" and so these winter veggies will be planted in a raised planter in this area... We purchased an old window frame (with glass) at a salvage yard and it will provide a covered top to let the sun in and keep the heavy rain -- and the neighborhood's roaming resident turkey -- out.