Radishes and Zucchini

Looking forward to seeing our new friends tomorrow at Market on the Square in Monticello.
We have zucchini and radishes from our Backyard garden. We also made 6 loaves of our cinnamon, nutmeg and zucchini bread. This is in addition to our jellies, jams, flowers and herb dried finishing salts. 
Every week during the growing season we'll have a variety of produce from the Backyard Garden. Follow us to stay informed about what we'll be bringing every week.

A green harvest for sure

Yesterday's harvest was definitely a green one. We picked 8 zucchini along with a few cucumbers and peppers. Everything is doing well despite the 99-101 degree heat by the afternoon. We need a break soon, like maybe down to 94!

We will be back at the Market on the Square in Monticello this Saturday. Hopefully we'll have fresh zucchini and loaves of our favorite Cinnamon Nutmeg Zucchini Bread for sale.

These are four of our 13 zucchini plants that have grown to over four feet high. That's tall for zucchini for sure!

Roasted summer veggies

We are back in the summer mode as far as roasting veggies for dinner.  Tonight we have a nice spread from the garden: radishes, cubanelle and banana peppers, carrots, zucchini and squash. 
We lightly sprinkle olive oil over them and then use our rosemary, sage and thyme finishing salt. Bake at 400 for 30 minutes. Tastes great and certainly healthier than what you buy in the store.
Definitely a garden to table kind of meal.

First harvest of the year!

We were up early to take advantage of the cooler temperatures (low 70's :) and we picked a variety of vegetables.
As the picture shows, we picked a sweet banana pepper, cubanelle peppers, red lunchbox peppers, radishes, carrots, zucchinis and cucumbers.
We are already making plans for dinner. We'll roast the peppers with our rosemary, thyme and sage finishing salt and the cucumbers and radishes will make a wonderful fresh salad.
Let us know what you think.

Memorial Day on the Square in Monticello

Another great day at the Market on the Square in Monticello!

We sold quite a few of these seasoning salts and also our new favorite Cherry Pie Jam.

We'll be back next week too. Also, even though today was not a day to pick and tend to the garden, tomorrow will be. From the preliminary looks, we'll be picking our first vegetables of the season. 

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Hope to see you Saturday at the Market on the Square in Monticello

Hope to see you at the Monticello Market this Saturday. Check out their Facebook page at this link.

We'll have our handmade jams and jellies to go along with our herb infused finishing salts.
**** We will have a small batch of our grandmother's favorite Cherry Pie jam. Be sure to stop by and taste it:)

Early vegetable pictures

Check out the early progress for our vegetables. These were planted Easter weekend and as you can see, are really enjoying the warm weather.


Cucumbers

 

Cubanelle Pepper


Patio Tomato

Kiwis are abundant and growing

Here's an early look at our kiwi. They made it through the early Spring with no unexpected frost or cold weather. We picked 400 last year and from what we can see, the harvest looks to be another bumper crop.

Of course, we won't pick these till November but it's good to see them in abundance and growing.

Herbs and corn

Here are a few pictures of some of the herbs and vegetables we are currently growing. Everything from lavender, dill for the garlic-dill pickles, to the corn which will be ready to pick the end of June. Fresh corn, corn cob jelly and corn chowder!

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Lavender

Corn

Dill

Using our finishing salt on a roast turkey

No, it's not Thanksgiving! We had a turkey in the freezer and decided to cook it for dinner. 

We used our Rosemary, Sage and Thyme Finishing Salt to season the turkey.  Wow, did that make a difference!

We always try to use what we grow in the backyard garden. The Finishing Salt is made from herbs grown in the herb garden.

Just an FYI. We will not be at the market in Monticello this week (May 18) but we will be back the weekend of Memorial Day to satisfy your jelly/jams and herb needs. Looking forward to seeing new friends again. 

Fig jelly glazed chicken breast

We use our jams and jellies for a variety of food preps. One of our favorite use for fig jelly is a glaze for oven roasted chicken. Served over a bed of brown rice, cranberries and almonds.

Check out the pic below, doesn't it look delicious?

Farmers Market in Monticello

Another successful day at the Market on the Square in Monticello. Met some new friends: Kathy from Kathy's Kookies and her friend Wendy who bakes the best cupcakes! Also, saw Tom and Barbara again who have been a tremendous resource for us.
Can't wait to go back again!!

Our First Farmer's Market

We took our jams, jellies and other produce to the farmer's market on the square in Monticello Saturday. Truth be told, we were a little nervous not knowing what to expect but everything was super organized and laid back at the same time.
Customers were scarce early but as the day moved on more and more customers stopped by to taste and purchase what we have grown in our Backyard Garden.
Best sellers were of course, strawberry fig jam, tomato jam, pineapple jalapeno and zucchini peach jelly. We hope to become regulars at this market and are searching for other markets in the area.  Big thanks to Tom who helped out early, Katie Cannon, and Mandy Tanner. Loved meeting new friends from Monticello.

Garden beginnings

The garden is 95%  complete with just a few tomatoes left to be planted.
Tomatoes, peppers, squash, corn, zucchini, beans and cucumbers are all growing strong in this warm weather. 
Pictured below are the corn patch, an early tomato and of course the mint.

Something new for us this year, because of the overwhelming support, we will be selling at several farmers markets in the area during the summer.
This Saturday we will be selling our jams, jellies and seasoned finishing salt at the Market on the Square in Monticello. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by and see what we have to offer.
Be sure to check back often for updates.