The photo I've started with above is an evening's harvest that gives a sense of the diversity of yum I'm celebrating. Dinner, dessert and roses to dry.
We started the year with fresh salads and then the strawberry harvest hit us heavy. Many pounds of strawberries were picked to eat until our lips and fingers were stained and then freeze for smoothies. A rare dinner out found Joseph eating a superb salad of greens with strawberries and sprouted almonds and I was impressed enough to recreate it at home for several nights running until something else caught our fancy. Garnishing it with a mini garlic scape was fun!
Our salad season has been ever-changing in it's flavors. Starting with a cold frame in the unheated greenhouse gave us red beet leaves, arugula, claytonia, baby kale and spinach to begin. Then the outside crops started maturing adding 4 more kinds of beet greens, 5 kinds of kale, many colors of chards and 2 more kinds of spinach as well as herbs and fresh peas. The health of our plants created an almost radiance at times. This beet leaf was so beautiful I had to stop and photograph it before I could bear to eat it lest I forget it's shine and health.
The berry harvest has been fun because of it's diversity. Red currents, honey berries, strawberries, red and golden raspberries and then a week after this photo the blueberries started coming in.
The berries have been eaten over fresh chevre sweetened with a bit of maple syrup. Wonderful dessert!
Then it was garlic scape harvest time. Hundreds of scapes to turn into scape pesto.
And having scapes around induced me to experiment with scape flavored goat cheese which I then used on pasta as a creamy sauce and garnished with parsley and ribbons of red Amaranth. Adding a salad fresh out of the garden with homemade feta cheese and sprouted almonds and dinner was extremely satisfying and nourishing.
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