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Hi, I'm Dave and thanks for visiting. I garden in Zone 6b in southern Indiana, and I blog here about gardening, nature and food.
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Trying to Reason With Tomato Season
The last couple of weeks are kind of a blur. It seems I have been occupied quite a bit with all things tomato. I’ve made three batches of tomato sauce for the freezer, and I cooked down one batch of … Continue reading
Breakfast With Midnight
I have mentioned our feral cats before. We’ve had several move in during the four years we have lived at Happy Acres, especially after our outside cat Scout died. The latest one is Midnight, a black male. I’ve worked for … Continue reading
August Harvests
This time of year, the garden is really keeping us busy with harvesting and processing. Tomatoes are coming on full blast, which means we have been dehydrating, slow roasting, freezing, making sauce, and eating them like crazy! This week we … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Gardening
Tagged beans, blackberries, cucumber, Delicata, eggplant, Gold Nugget, okra, spaghetti squash, squash, tomatoes, winter squash
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Local Produce
While we grow a lot of our own vegetables and fruit here at HA, we certainly don’t grow all that we eat. And whenever possible, we like to support our local growers. Lately we have been enjoying sweet corn and … Continue reading
Slow Roasted Tomatoes
Like dehydrating, slow roasting concentrates the flavors of the tomatoes, even turning notoriously bland supermarket tomatoes into tasty little morsels. But when you use homegrown, vine ripened tomatoes, well, then your taste buds are in for a real treat! You … Continue reading
