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Green Journal: My Backyard Harvest
October 8, 2007

Posted by CindyC in : Green Journal , 2 comments

At the beginning of summer, my family converted to organic gardening as part of our landscaping efforts. It was one of our largest home improvement projects but well worth the effort. Not only did our now usable yard add to our living space, we were able to do it without worrying about exposing our child, dog or environment to chemical hazards.

Our family happily watched our garden grow and mature through the summer months. Now that it’s fall, we thought it was finally time to “harvest” our garden and enjoy the fruits of labor, so to speak. We decided that we would find something in our garden each day this past week that we can use, rather than buy from the store. We figured this would be a great lesson in sustainable living for our daughter and her playmates. Although we don’t have a large yard, we were amazed at how many plantings we could use. Take a look at our week of small harvest:

Harvest

We were actually gone for the weekend but could have had plenty of fresh squeezed orange juice since our tree is already loaded with ripe fruit. Now that my family is totally hooked on “living off the (sub)urban land”, they are already planning for our spring garden :)

* Btw, drying home-grown herbs is an easy and inexpensive way to add healthy flavor to your food. Low moisture herbs like rosemary, oregano and dill are good for drying. Higher moisture herbs like basil or mint are better stored in the freezer. Check out a great recipe for freezing basil from our friend Michelle.

CindyC at Organicpicks

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