Fruits for friends and family.
Posted by Amy on 19 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Harvest, Peppers, Seasonal, Tomatoes, Vegetables
Oh, dear, it’s been over a MONTH since I posted here! I can’t believe it. My only excuse is that I’ve been busy gestating. Our baby is now officially three days overdue, actually.
There hasn’t been much action out in the garden since early autumn. My husband, Graham, helped me out a lot this year in getting things cleaned up out back. We actually managed to clip back all of the perennials and he helped me pull the finished plants from the vegetable garden after we harvested the tomatoes.
This year we didn’t keep all of our harvest to ourselves, preferring to keep things simple and give a lot of it away to friends and family members. (Although we did, of course, manage to roast several big baskets of tomatoes and froze four large ziplock bags of roasted tomato sauce.) Our next-door-neighbour traded us some nice little potatoes that he grew for some of our tomatoes, too.
Baskets of homegrown tomatoes, peppers and eggplant for our friends and family.
That little veggie trade had me thinking, actually, that since there are three of us now in a row on my street who grow vegetables, we should try to co-ordinate a little bit, and share our harvest. We could collectively grow more food than we could individually. I’ll have to give this some thought over the winter!
But now here it is, late November, and it’s been an unseasonably mild autumn this year, for which I’m grateful. Now there is the potential for snow flurries this coming week, the same week our new family member is expected to arrive (we have an induction scheduled for Monday).
I hope that although we’ll be busy with the new baby, I’ll have more time in general to devote to writing online over the coming year. We’ll be sure to post when the baby comes!
Good to see you're back, Amy! How lucky your family is to be able to share in the booty.
I hope your delivery goes well and will be anxious to hear of the wee one.
Your friends and neighbors were really blessed by your generosity! Looking forward to the news of your baby's arrival! Hopefully you're feeling well and everything goes well.
AmpleHarvest.org is a national campaign to diminish hunger by enabling farmers/backyard (patio-rooftop-kitchen too) gardeners to share their bounty with neighborhood food pantries.
The site is free both for the food pantries and the gardeners using it.
More than 1,100 food pantries nationwide are already on it and more are signing up daily.
It has received backing from the USDA, Google, many faith and service organizations, bloggers, writers, etc.
If you are a gardener with extra produce, please use the site to share what you wish with a community pantry.
If you belong to a house of worship that hosts a food pantry/bank/shelf, please let them know about AmpleHarvest.org and encourage them to register on the site (remind them it is
free).
Lastly, please email/call/Tweet your friends around the country and let them know about AmpleHarvest.org.
AmpleHarvest.org enables people to help their community by reaching into their back yard instead of their back pocket.
I think it'd be great if you start a bit of a cooperative with your neighbours. You'd be able to take time off and have them cover if necessary and vice versa to share the effort and the reward. All the best with that.
I'm enjoying the unseasonably warm weather as well here in Toronto, but we got our first snow today, Dec 7th.
this really looks nice thanks a lot..