THIS is unbelievable. When Jason and Julie Bass had to rip up their front lawn to replace a pipe, they decided to rebuild it this spring with raised beds and filled them with vegetable plants. Their front yard garden of cucumbers, tomatoes and peas has since landed the Oak Park couple a ticket, a court date and support from around […]

We got some eggs from friends who have chickens (they are several different colors because they have several different types of hens) and this morning, we’re making omelets. Click for a bigger image Swiss chard.Onions.Zucchini.Broccoli.Green pepper. All fresh from the garden, picked this morning most of it. Damn, I love this life… UPDATE: Here’s the final result, courtesy of my […]

I wasn’t sure how to break THIS NEWS to my two dogs. [S]pecialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year. Combine the land required to generate its food and a “medium” sized […]

Last weekend’s harvest of bell peppers and Beaver Dam peppers got turned into “Mexican” stuffed peppers that now reside in the freezer. It started with a sinkful of deliciousness: The day before we had made a huge pot of stuffing that’s mainly peppers, onions, chilies, black beans, more chilies, tomatoes, rice and more chiles along with some awesome spices, vegetable […]

This was first posted at an earlier version of this blog in 2007. Today, we’re going to process 100 jalapenos into these remarkably awesome stuffed peppers so I thought that I’d repost it. Enjoy. At long last, I’m finally getting this recipe up. We do HUGE amounts of these at once but the recipe is for 15-20. The photos are […]

Here’s what I guess you could call a “time lapse” panoramic shot of our kitchen that has been flattened out. In other words the left side of the picture connects to the right side. It shows our kitchen from start to finish during the canning process. Click the photo for a bigger version.It shows the tomatoes on the cupboard ready […]

Well, it’s been a cool, wet summer which is great for some things and not-so-great for others. We’re up to about 35 quarts of canned maters which is behind where we were last year but the cool weather has really slowed the ripening process (maters like HOT weather, for sure.) However, peppers (hot and sweet varieties) seem to be doing […]

Mrs. E and I have been organic gardening together for about seven years and recently moved to a new home with an acre of land about three years ago. We now have a very nice garden, 100% organic, lush and productive. We preserve an amazing amount of food from it and, every week of the year, we eat at least […]