Harvest

Harvest was a pretty busy time. Not necessarily due to the amount of food harvested, but more of getting back on top of everything since our summer holidays were done. Though we didn't get tons out of the garden, overall I though it did really well. This year was quite the experiment for me. Test one was to see if any animals would come and eat my garden, thankfully they all seemed content to stay in the forest. Test two was to see how the vegetables I wanted to grow would do up here. That test went well too, though there are a few things that I will need to do differently next year. 

The first potato! I was super excited to find this one as I had tried to steal a potato once and a while but never found any. The potatoes were a lot deeper then I expected, but there! We had a lot fun harvesting them. 

The Yukon gold harvest 

And pick some beans to go with them! 

Washed and ready for cooking.

Even cooked some homegrown chicken to go with the potatoes and beans. A whole homegrown meal! 

Green beans all ready for the freezer. Got quite a few fresh meals of beans, but suddenly there was a 2 week span were there was lots, so in the freezer they went. 

The chickens are doing a good job of supplying us with eggs! When we have extra we share or trade them, which I find is a lot more fulfilling then selling them.

Hazel helped with harvesting the rest of the potatoes. 

We found a few teeny tiny ones that kept her entertained most of the time. 

This one even got taste tested 😅

The full harvest of red potatoes and russets. 

Mommy's little helper who LOVES digging in the dirt!

Brushed clean and stored away. 

I picked all the tomatoes as the frost killed the tomato plant. So far most of the little ones went bad, so the chickens got them and one of the medium ones finally ripened. 

So this is all the corn that I gathered from my "very over planted, almost died twice" corn plants. 

And once I shucked them, these were what remained. The one on the right was super tasty! 

Really enjoyed having a garden this year and I am looking forward to starting one again next year.