Welcome March!

Last week we received a huge dump of snow. And I was just getting excited about being able to see my garden again.  Oh well.  Our plans for March are to start some seeds, get our seed potatoes and continue working on garden design.  I'm also testing out some recipes with frozen produce form 2011 so that we'll be ready once our home grown stuff grows.
This photo is from last month.  We were in the backyard and noticed that we'd left some brussel sprouts in the ground.  We picked them and they were still delicious steamed with a little butter.  I've found that they have such a different flavour when you grow your own.  And in case you're wondering,the brussel sprouts were my daughter's choice for what to plant in the garden last year.  The girls also picked tiny finger eggplants and lavender.

Oink, oink

We are very fortunate to have a neighbour who works on a farm.  He has offered us meat in the past but we have never had enough space in our tiny freezer to store it.  We have just purchased a chest freezer and my neighbour let me know this morning that they have pork available.  We don't eat a lot of meat, but having local, well fed meat is going to be nice.

Here We Go!

Welcome!  We've decided to try and eat as close to home as we can.  I've set up this blog to keep track of our adventures and to have a way to look back on what worked and what didn't.
Our plans are to work on our family vegetable garden, visit local farms and try foraging, all staying in our area on Georgian Bay. 
In the past we've had a semi-successful and small veg garden in our backyard, gone berry and apple picking at local farms and found a wild blackberry patch.
The plan for February is to work on a garden lay-out, read up on composting and purchase seeds.  We're hoping to have our 3 little ones involved in this family project, so I've also picked up some gardening books for kids from our library.
Stay tuned!