What a wonderful feeling it is to eat a meal harvested largely from one's own yard
I have long felt the drive to grow my own food but the huge step up when you realize that the meal you are eating is mostly from your own space is amazing.
I just needed to share a little bit as gardening has done so much for me and AP turned what was pleasantly keeping me fit into a true workout during the digging/gravel washing. Now I need to keep expanding my AP system for the motivated fitness that seems to provide.
Today the cook roasted veggies that tasted soooooo gooooood. Turnips and carrots freshly harvested, sweet potatoes from this past season, and an apple for sweetness. Only the apple and olive oil came from the market. We had greens from the garden. Turnip tops, some broccoli and broccoli greens, broccoli raab, onions, kohlrabi and herbs right out of the garden. MMMMMMMMM
We had talipa from the AP system yesterday. Caught in the afternoon and baked, coconut crusted for dinner. With that we had sald and sweet potato from the garden.
Regularly we have been pulling 2-3 lb catfish from the system for smoking. My favorite lunch is smoked catfish patties popped into the toaster.
I'm feeling very lucky being able to eat so much from our 1/3rd of an acre sand lot. (Mushroom compost is a wonderful thing, luckily we live about 2 miles away from a mushroom farm where we can get a huge scoop (about 3 yards) of compost for about $5.)
Now if only a few more of out hens would get on with it and start laying. Currently only one hen from our backyard flock is bothering to lay eggs. She does very well managing about 5 very large eggs a week but we should be getting far more than that from 12 hens (at least 8 of which are definitely old enough to be laying full on), anyone know any good tips? We have added a light in the hen house for this winter time of year. We turn it on early in the AM to give them a few more hours of light a day. We have ping pong balls and other fake eggs in the nest boxes to hopefully give them the idea of where to put them. They get laying crumble and have grit available. They get green treats and other treats. They have a large yard for digging around. It is getting on time to move their run area to a new bed though as they have pretty much cleaned up that garden area.
I hope others are able to enjoy wonderful harvests and meals from their own gardens. I am still learning what works well here in our particular location and at what seasons it does best. My AP system is still in it's first year but is definitely effective growing fish and seems to be getting better for the plants.
) smoked trout and AP salad and veg..
