Garden 2014

Here's a picture of just a few of the things we are raising this year:

We take pride in being able to put together meals where everything in the meal is something we raised. In the following picture of our Sunday dinner, we have roasted Red Potatoes with Yellow Squash and Zucchini, Broccoli, and Beets from our garden. The steak was from a cow we raised a couple years ago (not on our own property obviously), and the grape juice is from the grapes we harvested from our backyard last fall.

We have been eating lots of salads, but in the last week, the lettuce got a little scorched and tough which is sad. We do have tomatoes and green beans coming on now though which is exciting!

We fed the missionaries some purple cauliflower as part of dinner last week. They seemed a little wierded out by it. It does look sort of gross after you steam it because it turns kind of grey. I put a white sauce over it so it would hopefully look more appetizing. One elder said he would be writing home about eating purple cauliflower.

We love gardening. I have to admit though, that it's mostly all thanks to Joseph that we have one. He does a great job with it. The only credit I can take for it this year is for watering and pulling a weed every now and then.
It's possibly close to not being cost effective with how much it costs to water it, but it's a hobby as well as a food source. We like to feel as self sufficient as possible and it feels good and wholesome to raise our own food.