Roasted Parsnip Carrot Soup Recipe

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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Roasted Parsnip Carrot Soup Recipe

Roast your Roots Veggies

  • 6 med parsnips, peeled and sliced into two inch portions
  • 6 med carrots, peeled and sliced into two inch portions
  • tbsp or so of good quality olive oil
  • cracked sea salt
  • Roast at 400 till tender to the fork, approx 20 to 25 min

Now you can make a lot more, I did, I made a big sheet pan of these, served half at the dinner table, tossed with a tbsp of butter and tbsp of maple syrup and a bit of cracked pepper..  Amazing, then I put the second half of the pan into the fridge and held the roasted sweetened parsnips an carrots to make the soup the next day.

Parsnip Carrot Soup.

  • 1 med to large onion, peeled and diced
  • 1 tbsp of good olive oil
  • Six cups of veggie or chicken broth
  • Roasted Parsnips and Carrots
  • 1 tsp of a good no salt seasoning like Mrs. Dash or my med fine herb blended
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • cream to taste

In a good heavier bottom soup pot, add your oil and the onions, (no garlic or ginger, you can use them but it will change the soups overall taste profile) cook till onions are clear, then add in the broth, if you want thinner soup, add more broth, move up to 8 cups.. add your precooked roasted root veggies, your spices and heat it up till simmer to blend the flavours..  Remove from heat, and use your stick blender to make it as smooth as you would like..

Portion it out into your bowls and just before serving, put a tiny swirl of cream on top with a few red pepper flakes, goes amazing with a good hearty bread for dipping and cleaning up the bowl afterwards

This makes 4 big hearty lunch or lighter soup bowls of soup..  but can so easily be scaled up in amounts, or down..  This soup lets those rich earthy flavour of the roasted parsnip and carrot stand out and they are perfect in their fall glory!

Got a bit left over.. do consider using it as a cheese sauce base, add a little more broth to thin it down just a touch if needed, grate a cup a cheese, warm the soup, add the cheese till it melts in and then use that as a topping for roasted Cauliflower or Baked potato or even just a bowl of Rice..

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The Shifting Moral Sands Under our Feet

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

My Back to the Land Parents taught me young about shifting sands, on one hand I was allowed to flourish as a wild child, barefoot and bushy tailed, land, water, hounds at feet, wind running over me as I rode from a young age small and BIG horses, quads and moterbikes.. Honor the land, honor the animals that provided the meat, eggs and milk.. nurture the soil that crops our gardens and fills our pantry and yet the main source of income for my family.. pipelining..  my father worked the lines. 

Part of the reason we moved so much was following the pipelines, and part of the reason we lived for many years on the edge of the towns, in the bush, in the cabin, in the holiday trailer, why over and over things were sold and we moved with so little only to start again an again as the “across the tracks/new kid”  

We got to see the best in peaple and we got to see the worst, the peaple who would reach out and give a hand, who were kind.. and those that were not, taking labels off the cans at the small stores, and then selling them at a higher costs, you could get dog or cat food as likely as you would get peaple food..  peaple who would try and find a way to wring out that “oil” money from the workers in as many ways as they could think of.. there was a target on your back both ways, you were that “bad” pipeline but also you were.. they get paid lots of money, lets get our share of it..  Sigh.. 

It helped me grow up to fast, get jaded to soon and it also made me wildly flexable.. I can find a way.. this is a good trait to have, it makes me think outside the box, it makes me watch and quickly figure out how to fit in the box, learn how a group interacts and meld little things to fit in better.. 

It also made me see things in many MANY shade of grey, my world is NOT black and white.. but I still see good and bad in so many ways.. as I grew and aged, I make choices on what I will do in regards to my own personal life and how what I do effects the outside world.. 

One of the things I am big on is you can only vote for your local goverement or federal X times so many years but you can vote with your dollar every single time you open your wallet..  Voting with your dollar is FAR more powerful..  I still vote always.. I am aware of just how amazing it is that I was born to this country and this time as a female. 

The past 20 months and I have a feeling the next coming years are really pushing my compass.. I mean I am pro-vaccine if you choose to get it while I am 100% against it being done by force and yes that includes financial distress.  

I made the choice years ago that I would not support business that went cashless, this is a line for me.. I do not agree with a cashless Society as it supports some peaple while adding in to marginalization of others..   Even when I want to use the place of business, I make it clear that I not buy because I can’t use cash even if I was going to use my card.. 

I have made the same type of choices over and over in the past 20 months.. making choices to support small and local but also making choices to not support businesses that are splitting and marginalizing..  while its not their fault “they are following the rules” I am supporting those that are doing their best to treat everyone with respect, if you clearly do not care about those that choose not to get the vaccine or can not.. then I will vote with my dollar and you are not getting it.. I will find a business that does both and they will get my money.. 

More and more of these moral related subjects are coming up, my favorite clothing store contracted work to a company using peaple that are supporting N,K,  Now I grow my own tomatos’ but I do normally buy tomato paste in the itty bitty cans.. have I bought and supported a company that is using what must be called modern slaves in the middle of a slow genocide.. 

The list like these goes on.. more and more we see just how fragile our “world supply chains are” and just how much they are laid on the back of the poor..  I have over the years supports so many fair trade, so many co-ops, so many small businesses and I am glad I have and I will.. 

But I find its getting so big, so intertwined that its becoming brutally hard to make some of the choices, so many companies that were at one time small and local and supported local farmers were bought out and kept the name and the small friendly face while being owned by the big boys.. 

I am used to watching other countries media spin hard on many things and do not get me wrong, I have seen our counties spin for many many years as well..  I mean if you asked my friends after pretty much any movie afterwards I will make a comment, well that was a in support of X or done to make us more open to x or y or z..  If you have not figured this out yet.. watch TV and movie’s to see what the think tanks see coming down the line.. often you can get a glimpse into what they see as the next issues

Also margaret atwood is crazy good at looking at small things and figure out lines of thought patterns on what could be.. 

However the past two years have put the Spin so high in our own country, I no longer need to look outside it to see so many of the issues that we saw in other countries,.. because they are right here, right now and in our face.. 

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I for one, do not have the answers.. I do not even know what my own answer will be.. what it would have been tomorrow or what it will be today is not what it could be tomorrow..  

So many peaple have become Ridgid, others are so loose on the moral end that they need to be given the eye, and marked in your head as “do not trust further then you can throw them”

At a time when we need to be as open to new information, open to new ideas, open to going backwards for answer, we are instead being driven to be guarded..  

Stay flexable.. it will serve you well in the long run.. do not let go of your core morals.. but for the rest.. be willing to shed it and grow a new version of you..

 

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Lamb Roast with Root Veggies

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Sometimes the you just need the classics.. Slow roasted meat with huge amounts of root veggies..  Simple and yet not.. we have all had those dry pot roast or the swimming in fat leg of lamb and those root veggies.. well, its hard to not enjoy roasted roots but there are a few that do not really work in a mix (example beets, I love roasted beets they are a huge favorite but they will effect the color of all the others roasted with them in the pan, just not a good pick)

The first thing is if you can get a nice leg of ontario lamb from a farmgate (ideally grass fed or lightly grain finished, this will be a much leaner meat then that fatty heavy grained lamb penned lamb.. they are night and day as far as I am concerned.. 

Do not be afraid to do this with a lovely young leg of goat if that is easier to get in your area..  (just make sure that the farmer you are working with has made sure to remove those young boy goats parts lol, they can get the boy taint very young, just like they can breed very young)

Thaw out the meat and put it to age with garlic, oil and your favorite spices for at 24 hours, 48 is better, we much learn to age our meats better in the fridges.. it makes a massive difference.. it was not that long ago that the butchers would hang longer but now do not count on it.. AT ALL..  from the smallest shop to the biggest, they are at max push and they are not hanging.. as a in person example.. for over 10 years, my lambs were butchered monday, I would ask them to be hung at least 72 at a min and they were ready saturday..  then came the push and I have really struggled to even get that 72 hours..  in 2021, after booking them in a year in advance just to get the spots, they went in mid-monday, were butchered tuesday and ready thursday.. they didn’t hang at all.. there is not time in there for proper hang time..  

This means that I need to pull and age that meat on my end if I want the best from it.. sometimes its just a matter of a few hours in a sauce or giving it little pounding but when it comes to bigger portions like a leg of lamb, aging and then slow roasting will get the job done.. 

Now on to the veggies.. Garlic and Onion.. o ya, its a must.. lol.. its a must!

However the key is to do a mix of sweeter roots with more starch roots.. in this mix was potato, carrot, winter turnip, summer turnip and butternut squash..  so Potato and summer turnip were the most carb and not sweet at all, the carrot and winter turnip were the next level of flavor and the next level up on sweeter flavour and the butternut squash was the sweetest of them all..  

That is my goal, about a 3rd more heavier, a 3rds in the middle range of flavour and only a 3rd in the softer or sweeter or strong flavour profile.. sure you want it colorful, but you also want to mix the textures and the flavours so as you eat your meal you can pick and choose.. 

Of course the broth used and the spices and herbs used also have a influence to the end results but that is far more personal.. in our case, we let the garlic, black pepper, yellow mustard seeds and fresh rosemary out of the garden with lots of salt speak for itself.. I also added in some of my homemade red wine in there.. 

What is your favorite blend of root veggies when roasting them in the oven with a beautiful roast of your choice?? Is there something you love? Something you hate?

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BC Floods, Roads and Shock

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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Right now most of the peaple effected directly and those all around the province are in “this is happening shock mode”  They are just starting to move, those trapped in cars, that have been lifted out by chopper, those that after three days have been able to get one highway lane open heading went, bringing peaple from hope area to get back home to the Vancouver, the 200 plus peaple after a two plus day wait on the trapped train has been able to get out.. 

The water rising slowed for a day (but the weather at the moment says they are heading into 7 days of rain so that is not going to hold”

Having said that at the moment, a massive sandbagging effort is holding a break point.. I will let ValB’s comment do the follow up on that part..  

“Update: pumps still holding (hundreds of people and military managed to sandbag enough the station isn’t under water at the moment). Fraser river has dropped some (no more rain please) but pumps still operating at capacity. BC government in state of emergency (second time this year I believe – fires was the first one this summer). Ag minister Lana Popham (I’ve met her, hardest working woman I know) spoke about the livestock situation (in between trying not to break down as she’s been on face time with farmers, who are in their barns with their dead cows) has reached out to other feed suppliers. Many many silos, and hay under water. The BC lab that tests ALL the milk intended for consumption, is under water – Alberta and Saskatchewan have offered the use of their labs. The farmers will be taken care of, many more livestock will have to be euthanized.”

While the main thing right now is the “NOW” and I totally get it.. the overall effect on the food and supply chains for the province is in effect but its not just B.C. Massive amounts of BC milk flows to Alberta and trust me its not flowing! 

Now lets move back to the roads for moment, with 9 effected major highways plus the trains, and we need to talk a bit about BC for those readers that are not away of it..  if you have never driven those mountain roads, it can be hard to grasp how narrow, how cut into the mountains and how steep the drops are.. 

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Thankfully the roads are much better these days then when they were creating them.. but honestly they are dangerous on a good day, amazing views yes.. but still crazy amounts of drops, mountains rising above you on one side, steep drops into valleys and most often long snaking rivers or at times depending huge lakes..  Beautiful and those that spend time in the mountains can and will feel the pull to come back. 

It will not a simple process to fix all those different roads, there have been slides, breaks, whole sections broken off and slide down into the rivers.. which brings as back to food and stores.. and for that, I am going to bring back comments again from ValB

“Most store shelves are now bare. This is way worse than the start of the pandemic. I flipped a pic someone local posted of our Save On Foods. The entire produce section is empty with the exception of half dozen of some weird cabbage things, and maybe six dozen lemons. 🤦‍♀️”

Honestly I can not write it better or explain it better then ValB did in this comment.. (thank you again for sharing your thoughts and comments.. 

“Yes the whole lower mainland is technically part of the pacific delta…crazy. Getting the livestock out, some smaller places did…but the reality is there is nowhere to get them out to, no passable roads, not enough trucks to move that much livestock…the system has collapsed. If they manage to get rail back up and running they are already terribly backlogged with grain. So this will affect farmers in other provinces who expect to sell their grain, much of it gets transported to the lower mainland to be shipped.
It was suggested to me ‘oh well we’ll just get grocery from Alberta. Alberta cannot feed BC. They need their supply for them and most people don’t realize Alberta gets they bulk of their goods from BC. Also had someone say ‘oh they can just ship to Prince Rupert and offload there’. No. Rupert cannot accommodate the traffic, and they are still in the process of building their deep water port for the big ships.

‘You can go down through the US and bring it back up’. Technically, yes. Is you can get across the border, if the goods aren’t time sensitive….but at a huge cost.

I feel almost sick at this. It boggles my mind how people simply do not understand – how precarious the supply chain is. Even up here they don’t get that their food comes to the grocery store every single day by truck. Every single day. They’re hoping to open highway 3 first (the crows nest) but no timeline. They’re also talking about designating it for essential travel only (trucks, medical etc). The federal govt has offered the military. We need it. (And they are getting help from the Canadian Military)

This will get worse before it gets better.”

I am going to second that..  

This will get worse before it gets better!!!

We will see what today brings, I have also been reaching out to contacts and friends involved in a few different parts of the supply chain and effects.. there is more ripple effects out there.. those will be shared over the coming days and weeks as I can get links and offical ways to backup what I am being told..  

Right now.. its still very much Shock Mode.. (but soon, soon that is going to change and its going to get ugly when it does!) 

This is without a doubt the largest Natural Disaster in my personal lifetime to effect my country.. most folks are still thinking this is a BC disaster, but its truly a Canadian one..  

 

 

 

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Flooding and Fear

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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There are another 40 plus photos on the link to show you even a blink’s worth of the damage and danger..  but more is coming to thousands as pumps are breaking and a area that was in the 1920’s a lake has a real risk of having 3 meters of water come pouring in to fill that lake base back up..

For thousands of families and thousands of business, the SHTF and hard.. while some MIGHT have water damage insurance, most will not have over land flood insurance and that means that this “act of god” will not be covered..  most will not have their extras if covered at high enough rates to begin to cover “2021” covid prices and I wince at what the recovery “covid/flood/supply chain” 2022 costs will be..  even those buildings standing but under a meter of water with fully flooded basements will need rip outs to the studs and rebuilds.

Now we widen our view moving to the businesses themselves.. their stock will be considered damaged and won’t be saleable and restocking (well we will get to restocking and roads just a bit down this post) while they will be strong at the beginning, they will soon find their shelves empty and while right now in the past 2 days most peaple are still in shock and in “help” mode..

In the next days, weeks and months, as the damage truly set in, as the mental health struggles, as peaple realize that there is no job to go to.. no paycheck coming in, that it takes months to even begin to get insurance claims moving as that shock wears off and a disaster form of PTSD and the daily struggle and grind wears peaple down, that help mode is going to be less in focus..

Take whatever help is being offered, and if you are in a home with space and are uneffected, sit down with your family and have a very real talk about if you have friends or family or depending the ability to offer a space in your home to help the displaced..  even if its just a place to park the moterhome and plug in etc

The power is off as is the heat and the temps are dropping at night, and its not like folks can just go to the local hotels, they are in the same place and there is a lack of space.. community centers that normally be opened up for warming are reporting in.. no, flooded, no power, no heat..

If you have the time to do so and have not done so, get those back packs ready, get your bug out kits ready, if for some reason calling it that “does not sound right” just get those evac bags and ideally backbags for each member of the family ready..

Now we get to really bad news.. the roads.. so many roads are closed, multiple mud slides, roads and bridges and train tracks are down..  I personally expect that a huge focus will be on getting the trains back up and running as they are the powerhouse for moving goods..  Which is not to say there will not be work on the other roads, for those from away..

In case you are wondering why I think the trains will be the focus, because without the trains, the goods and resupply from the port (which was already insanely backlogged) will not just not be supplying BC but it will not be sending goods to alberta,, Sask and MB and yes.. supplies can be brought up from the states to a point and across the great lakes from ontario.. BUT all the supplies and ships at the Vancouver port is not going to just suddenly pop up on the other side of canada at the eastern ports for off loading..   So my friends and family in alberta, please do not panic buy but it might be a good idea to just make sure some of your favorite SHELF stable foods are topped up if you are low on them.

In a nut shell about half the province is cut off from the other half.. the whole most populated area of the province (including the port, the resupply system and millions) are cut off from the rest of canada by road) you can leave one way by sea, and you can fly out but even that is going to be limited at least for a little while..

The flooding is covering some of the best and most productive farm land, the dairy’s are flooded, the crop land flooded, huge sections of one of two of our fruit production lands are either flooded, or damaged.. all the hundred of thousands of chickens and turkeys in their massive buildings did not get out, they are dead.. that is going to effect not only now but a whole raising cycle of all kinds and types of food production.  That is the future.. which for most is not top of mind..

Update “Fraser Valley farmers supply 50 per cent of all B.C.’s eggs, chickens and dairy products. There are 45,000 dairy cows in the valley, and each chicken farm has around 25,000 birds.”

50 percent of all BC eggs, chickens and dairy, worse then I thought.

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Right now, its all about the here, this moment.. and empty shelves..  ( I copied this from facebook, I can not tell you if its real or not but I believe it is)

Its the tip of the iceburg..

My heart goes out to those effected..   I hope that when BC asks for help from the feds, they get it.. they are going to need it.. I hope that all of reach out and find a way to give a helping hand in whatever way we can.  Its going to be a very long 2022 and a very hard lean christmas for tens of thousands of families and then some..

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BC regulars.. please check in..

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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Rationing??? Is it coming or Is it here?

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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A friend shared the qoute below and then commented that they didn’t feel that right now that Canadian’s would feel the same way at all..

I totally agree, I think right now at this point that anything like this would indeed create massive ripples and blowback on all levels of goverment..

So here is my real question for you.. do you think its coming or do you think its already here?

“The most important factor that actually changed the way Canadians shopped for, cooked, and ate food on the home front was the introduction of a universal price freeze starting in December 1941 followed by the introduction of coupon rationing of sugar in July 1942, tea and coffee in August, butter in December, and meat in March of the following year. These controls on food consumption came shortly on the heels of months of periodic food shortages and a precipitous spike in food prices. Price and rent controls, it was argued, would help to ensure that Canadians could continue to afford necessities like food, fuel, and shelter while rationing promised all Canadians a fair share of scarce necessities. The penalties for breaking the rules ranged from small fines to imprisonment, but both controls – and rationing, in particular – maintained strong popular support throughout the war. In separate polls done in March and July 1945 more than 90 percent Canadians agreed that rationing had done a good or fair job in achieving equitable distribution.11 As one postwar analyst summed up Canadians’ attitudes, “rationing has consistently given evidence of being the most popular among Canada’s wartime controls, a fact that is especially significant when one remembers that it has been more a part and parcel of every day living than any of the other controls have been.”

My personal view.. Its already here, in so many ways..

However I am not going to explain why I feel that way in this post, I really do not want to sway the readers view point, I would truly like to hear your thoughts on this? I will do a part two, where I will share my personal thoughts, along with clips from the response’s from this post (without names etc)

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Lamb Squash Soup Recipe

Posted on November 13, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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Everyone that grew squash this year has some younger immature squash that needs to be used up right away but its not as sweet or full bodied as a properly cured and stored squash would be..  This is a great recipe to use that almost there sized up sqaush but not turned color..  

It will also work perfectly with normal mature squash as well..  The key to this soup is pre-roasting the squash ahead..  Take all your need to use up now squash, peel, seed them out (if you have chickens or pigs otherwise, compost pile it goes) then cube it with a bit of olive oil, whatever your favorite base herb blend and lots of cracked salt and pepper.. oven roast till tender.. cool and use fresh or can then pack these up into 2 or 4 cup freezer tubs or bags for winter use.. lay flat to freezer then stack them.

This makes a good hearty 4 person bowl of soup and could easily be stretched out to a 6 portion as a side or starter soup.

Lamb Squash Soup Recipe

  • 1 pound of ground lamb
  •  2 cloves of peeled finely diced 
  •  1 med peeled, finely onion
  •  2 cups of sweet young pea’s
  •  4 cups of mashed pre-roasted squash (your choice) 
  •  8 cups of veggie broth or 4 cups veggie broth, 4 cups beef broth
  •  1 tsp of fine mixed herb blend
  •  1 tsp of basil
  •  1/2 tsp of red pepper flakes
  •  Salt and pepper to taste

In your heavy bottomed pot at med heat, add a touch of oil, meat, onion and garlic and cook till browned on med heat. You want some nice brown bits on the bottom and the onion cooked till clear.. then add a cup of the broth and deglaze the pan, bring up all the brown bits into the broth, then add the rest of the broth, the peas and the pre-cooked squash.

Bring to a simmer for 5 min or till the peas are tender and ready.. 

Serve as is.. this is right at the border between soup/stew.. you can easily add another 2 cups of broth if you wanted more.. 

 

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Plant and Grow Horseradish

Posted on November 12, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Say Horseradish and most peaple in canada that I know will think of horseradish sauce or the added spicy in Mustard or Seafood Sauce.  The history of Horseradish is long, as in thousand plus year long and yet here in canada, FAR TO FEW GARDENS have a patch of horseradish tucked into spot in the yard..  (not in the garden itself as this is a spreader!)

Lets talk about some of the reasons you really should have horseradish in your food growing plan. The first part is that it can be grown darn near anywhere, when I went to Holland, I was so surprised to see big old pots of waving horseradish leaves.. They even have fancy white and green versions..  So anyone who can have a pot or tub of soil can grow horseradish greens and roots..  I have never tried to over winter it in pots but it clearly does just fine in the warmer climates.  Here in canada, bring the pot in for the winter or plant in the ground and it will go down for the winter nap and be one of the first greens back up in the spring.

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Horseradish is NOT fussy on soil type.. I mean it will have some root forking if you put it in clay or gumbo soil straight up and it can turn sideways to grow but in almost all soil types it will grow big thick roots..

You will only need to beg a friend for a small root or find a fresh root at the store and plant it up and you will have the ability to grow as much as you want in the future..  I feel pretty safe in saying that in most places if you ask for bit of starter root on your local garden group, or you local community site or ask at church or just put the word out that it will come to you..  there are many plants that peaple can be like.. I need it all.. horseradish is not typically one of them.. because we understand that we can take the big root for harvest and gift you a couple baby side roots and you are going to have your own patch soon enough.

fresh horseradish greens with spring garlic

So in keeping with the roots, its hottish without being crazy hot, its need vinegar to make it stable and holding for months and it can be used in place of pepper in many ways in a number of dishes..  we take getting and having pepper for granted here in the north but we certainly can not grow it.. we can grow horseradish and its a lovely “heat” to dishes.

But the truth is that you should be growing this for the greens first and formost!

The young are mild and just hints of pepper, they are not more spicy then other young greens you will find in mixes in the store.. but what they are is far easier to grow..  They are productive and then some, you can have a short row of them and they will provide you greens from the earliest spring until hard frosts..

The older ones are going to have a stronger flavor and do better as a cooked green then a fresh young eating green, with or without the main stem, you call on what you and your family likes..

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the leaves are thin, which is makes them a ideal drying green.. dried and crumbled this amazing green acts as a replacement for Basil in winter use..  it can also be grown in mass and dried in bulk as the base for a dried green powder for winter use in terms of smoothies, or as homemade soup bases.

I tend to put up a couple quart jars of the dried greens each year and they are so worth doing so.

Farmgal’s Eat what you Grow, Grow what you eat!

This post is going to be part of a series of recommendations in regards to find ways to “grow what you eat” in our local climate to replace different items that are subject to both “global shipping challenges and also climate change challenges)

In the same way it also will help keep things local and frugal..

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Lest we forget..

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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I will Pause to Reflect and Remember in honor of my Great-Grandfathers, Uncles, Step-father and brother who all served. In honor of my personal friends that have served and are still serving our country..  For the next generation that will have challenges seen and unforseen..  

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