• Home
  • Shop
    • In The Kitchen
    • DVDs
    • Books
    • Music
    • Mom's Art
  • Homestead Blog
  • Submit a hint
  • Learning Videos
  • News
  • CD
Homestead Blessings

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

6/18/2009

0 Comments

 
Well time has gone by as it so quickly does and we have now had some very hot and dry days! That’s Tennessee for you! We have been able to pick pok choy, butter crunch lettuce, (my favorite) spinach, a spring mix with wild flowers and more! Its is such a blessing to gather the beautiful, healthy food that will nourish another sweet family ! There are many wild trees and flowers to enjoy right now, dogwoods, mountain laurel, blackberry and more! Plants are so amazing to me! They feed us, cloth us, (cotton, flax and linen) give us medicine to heal us, feed our animals and more. Wow, we are blessed! It is so wonderful to work with them and watch them grow. We are truly working close to our Creator when we are in the dirt!

We got the tomatoes (that we started in the green house from seed) planted in the garden this week. We planted Roma tomatoes which make the best for canning pizza sauce, ketchup and salsa. This year we started our okra in the green house around the first of the month and we set the plants out in the garden yesterday. That way we will have okra a little bit earlier this year. Maybe some jambalaya and okra file` gumbo will be on the menu this spring. Okra is related to the hibiscus flower and is very healthy for you. Some dear friends of ours came out yesterday and helped us build a big beautiful trellis for our cherry tomatoes and hyacinth bean to grow and climb on. We will also plant the beautiful moon flower vine that blooms big and white in the evenings. It is so nice because we will be able to walk under the arbor into the big garden, pick our food and enjoy the beauty of it!

I’ve been transplanting zinnias and marigolds from the greenhouse out into the garden. I got African marigold this year for a salve I would like to make and marigolds are soooo good for the garden and to keep away bugs. Zinnias make beautiful cut flowers and of course look wonderful in the garden! Cecilia and Hannah have been staking the early peas and Jasmine is planting arugula. We are all trying to get plants and work in before the rain comes in the next couple of days. We will be working on getting a new chicken coop built next week. We are having to move our hens to another spot on the farm because they like to find our neighbors garden and scratch up their lettuce. Oh how they love to ramble! We have 18 hens and 1 rooster that give us plenty of beautiful brown eggs. (Not the rooster of course!) Three times a week we sale eggs to our faithful egg customers, which is more than enough to help pay for the feed and still leave plenty of eggs for us!

Well I must go transplant my basil now. We love pesto, and we eat it with almost every meal in the summertime! We hope to share a few recipes with ya’ll in the future. That’s all for now folks, gotta get back to the garden!

Blessings,
Vicki
P.S Here is a recipe we love to use when the spinach is coming in:

Mushroom and Spinach Marinate
1 gallon sized bag of baby spinach or chopped large spinach
1 ½ cup mushrooms, sliced
1 can black olives, drained and sliced
¼ cup olive oil - or more if needed
Celtic or Kosher salt
Fresh cracked black pepper
Toss spinach and mushrooms with olive oil, add black olives, pepper and salt to taste. Let marinate in warm kitchen for 1-2 hours or in fridge overnight. We like it best at room temperature. This sounds too simple to taste good, but we love it and even served it at a gourmet party and everyone raved about it.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Welcome To Our
    Blog

    Visit Homestead's profile on Pinterest.
    Picture

    Submit a hint!

    We would love to hear and share your homesteading hints.

    Archives

    August 2019
    April 2019
    October 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    October 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    February 2017
    October 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    May 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    December 2011
    October 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    March 2011
    January 2011
    November 2010
    September 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    September 2009
    June 2009

    Don't miss a post, Follow our RSS

    RSS Feed



    Picture
    Homestead Blessings Coloring Book
    Picture
    Homestead Blessings Cook Book
    Picture
    Farmers Daughter CD
    Picture
    Homestead Blessings DVD Series
    Picture
    Picture
    Zinnia
    Picture
    Canned Goods
    Picture
    Green Beans
    Picture
    New kid on the farm
    Picture
    Woodland Poppy
    Picture
    Online Laundry
    Picture
    Green Bean Girls
    Picture
    Here's Your Sign
    Picture
    Cat in the corn
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Hangin' Lamps

    Categories

    All
    Animals
    Apples
    Arts & Crafts
    Basil
    Books
    Canning
    Change
    Chickens
    Children's Books
    Cider
    Coloring Book
    Composting
    Cook Book
    Cooking
    Corn
    Cows
    Dvd
    Fall
    Garlic
    Givaway
    Goats
    Green Beans
    Guest Hint
    Harvesting
    Holidays
    Horses
    Independence Day
    Music
    Off Grid
    Peas
    Planting
    Poems
    Potatoes
    Product News
    Recipes
    Road Trip
    Sale
    Seeds
    Sewing
    Sheep
    Spring
    Storms
    Strawberries
    Summer
    Tomatoes
    Wedding
    Wildcrafting
    Winter
    You Tube

      On Our Bookshelf 

    We Love This Book!
    Learn the principles of cooking from scratch.This book will also help you be able to create recipes & substitute ingredients in others.
    We refer to this book a lot.  Canning  fruits & veggies, making jams with & without sugar, cheeses, preserving & more.
          9 Book boxed set.
    Granny gave this to us the Christmas before we moved to our homestead. 
    What an inspiration!!
    The Little Britches Series is a perfect read aloud for the whole family. 
© Copyright 2009- Homestead Blessings™ All Rights Reserved
Picture