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I picked baby lettuce for a nice salad to go with the roast chicken with carrots and quinoa.

Our little farm on summer solstice morning.

I grew wheat and amaranth last year from seed from the grocery store. We also got started on our millet, by planting the seeds from the sprayes sold for bird food. I planted lentils and they grew well, but the seedpods only hold one or two lentils. Not really worth growing, but it was a fun...

I don't think quinoa would grow well in my area, so I haven't tried to grow it. I did grow amaranth last year. I used the grains I bought at the health food store. It grew into nice tall plants and all the critters liked the greens. Goats, rabbit and chickens. I snuck some into our salads too...

Glad to find out coca cola is good for something other than curing my migraines :lol: Now that you have used the roundup, I would definitely add as much organic matter as possible. You might use straw, which is sold for bedding in farm stores. Don't use hay, it will only add more weed seeds to...

I have to try more dried tomato recipes. Last year's tomato harvest was pitiful, but fortunately I preserved the abundant harvest from the previous year and have lots of dried tomatoes. I love getting ideas from everyone. We haven't made anything special with our garden produce. We don't have...

Personally, I wouldn't ever want to be without sweet gypsy peppers. They have a wonderful flavor, nice colors (yellow, orange, red), are pretty when cooked, are easy to dehydrate or freeze. They are also ready to pick sooner than california wonder type of bell pepper and a nice size for stuffing.

I grew amaranth for the first time last year. It grew much taller than pigweed. We harvested it before most of the seeds dropped out. But then it got moldy and I had to throw it all in the compost. I hope some of those seeds will sprout and spread in my garden :lol: Oh and I love pigweed. It...

We don't need non GMO research. Mother nature provided us with non GMO crops. I am a backyard gardener. I plant where I have space. If my property is adjacent to a GMO farmer, I don't have much choice as to where to plant my crops. Bees don't know not to come from the GMO criop and pollinate...

I have seen the native daylily available in catalogs. You just have to look around. I dug mine up at my parents, when I was in NY last time. I am so glad it keeps growing every year.

I replanted some onion sets that we are using for green onions. We moved the goat pasture and the onions were inside of it. There would be no onios left for us if I left them. These are from seeds from our own onions last year. I just sprinkled them on the ground in the fall and they came up...

We put the chicken house litter directly in the field at various times of the year. We make sure it is watered in well and turned under about 4 weeks before we plant anything in it. We have different "beds" or areas that are in use at different times of the year, so we usually have at least one...

I love scarlet runner beans, they are delicious very young, as fresh shelled beans and dry. And they have beautiful flowers as well. I have not had much luck growing them where I live now. We do love the blue lake bean also. Although we occasionally get some sort of rogue bean in the mix. I...

Maybe we need to have our own revolution.

I went round the field this morning picking whatever greens I could find to toss up a salad. I found some swiss chard, some young mustard greens, beet tops, chickweed, green onions, parsley and some other weeds. I'll shred some carrrots from the garden into this mess and we will have ourselves a...

My birds go nuts for millet. Go figure. I also noticed that my birds will like stuff I grow, but not store bought. I feed the millet in sprays. But mine like the store bought millet too. :P

We grow broomcorn, sunflowers, amaranth, millet and milo for the chickens. They also get other stuff we come across in the garden. But we specifically harvest the above for the seeds to feed the chickens. We simply dry the whole plant and either give the whole plant to the chickens or other...

Mold is a problem for us too. I leave them on the stalk as long as possible to dry. It is a fine balance though, since we get corn worm and they eat the corn, and their poo makes the mold grow. I usually start checking the corn for worms and feed those to the chickens. Usually I try to pick the...

we plant foxtail millet, broomcorn, corn, and this year amaranth and wheat for the chickens and the other critters as well. Of course everything is multipurpose. We also dry the leftover sweet corn and feed it to the chickens. They love the millet. I thresh it, i just give it to them as is and...

I like eating the flowers. They look great in a salad. If you want to eat the leaves fresh, I use only the very young ones and cut them up in narrow strips in a salad. Gives a nice cucumber taste to the salad. Next time you want to impress folks with your potluck dish, use some of the flowers as...