Tomato Painting

Today was the first time I had the urge to paint since I got to the Wormfarm in May.  It has been all about fabric while I have been here.  But suddenly I felt very inspired by watercolor again.

Lady Jem and I creating together...and snuggling in the sunshine.  She is a sweety.  Just don't pick her up or she will claw your eyes out......

For last nights potluck I fried up some green tomatoes in a nutritional yeast, panko bread crumbs and basil batter. yum!

Reedsburg Market, Fabric Eggs and Purple Cabbage Potluck

I did the Reedsburg Farmers Market today.  Come visit me on Sunday at Thunder Valley Inn from 9am-1pm where I'll be selling Wormfarm organic produce!

I have skipped the 8th page and am working on the 9th for now.  Eggs!

Last weeks Potluck was full of purple cabbage!  I brought Spring Rolls filled with tofu, cabbage, red pepper, cucumber, lettuce, basil, carrot and rice noodles with peanut sauce and I brought my fermented Sauerkraut.

Potluck Sundays

Last Sunday I brought some of my homemade spaghetti sauce.

And the week before a curried lentil loaf.

More Chicken Cards and Butterbeer!

More handmade business cards!  I can't wait to drop them around Chicago when I get back.

Fabric Tower #1.

Fabric Tower #2

My wall of inspiration and happiness.

Potluck from last week.  I made Tomato and Green Pepper Curry on the left. 

Last night Jami, Aaron and I made Butterbeer (Harry Potter reference)!  It involved a lot of brown sugar, butter, ginger beer and rum and tasted just how I'd imagined it would taste.

YUM!

Vegetables, Honey Chicken, Cat

Potluck Sunday!  Donna made an amazing Moroccan stew with cinnamon and allspice.  I made little blueberry hand pies that I forgot to photograph.  

Red cabbage is here!  I cooked some red cabbage, kale, mushroom and tofu and served it over Israeli cous cous.  Cooking is exciting with all these vegetables growing around me.  There are so many options and I am getting better and better at throwing things together on a whim!

Conquering the 4th page of my chicken book.  This is the page were I introduce Honey.  It was very difficult to figure out how to cut out the arms wrapped around Honey so I have been putting it off by reading instead.  But today I decided I'd had enough and needed to get the 4th page going.

For this one I drew the image out then cut out the separate pieces of paper for different fabrics.  Very much like a puzzle.

Sexy Crook.  He knows I am infatuated with him.  But he pretends he does not care. (He loves me)

Sunday Market and Tomato Bite

Yesterday morning I was selling organic vegetables from the Wormfarm at Thunder Valley Inn Farmers Market in a Roadside Culture Stand. I love being at markets and sharing my love of veggies with everyone.

My very first bite of a tomato since last summer. Yum! I have learned that waiting to eat foods when they are actually in season is very rewarding. They taste how they were meant to. Full of flavor. And the wait makes it even better. In the next few weeks I will gorge myself on tomato everything, bruschetta, salsa, pasta sauce...to the point that I will be ready to say goodbye again until next year! And I will make sure to can and freeze some as well.

A Monarch on a Milkweed plant. Milkweed is a very important plant for Monarchs.

Saturday afternoon reading in my winter jacket on a strangely cold day.

Potluck Sunday!

I made a Blueberry Tart.

Blueberry Picking!

Naomi and I went blueberry picking at Blueberry Hills in Reedsburg yesterday.

I had never seen a blueberry bush. The combination of greens, pinks, blues and purples was such a beautiful thing to see on that breezy sunny day!

I picked almost 5 pounds.

Getting the blueberry jam started.

And I made a blueberry and blackberry tart with coconut whipped cream.  Yum!

My plate from last weeks potluck. Another incredible meal. I brought some beets I pickled with cinnamon and ginger and some garlic Sriracha green beans.

I love this little Crook.

Bodacious Garden

I really love our Potluck Sundays.  I made a Kale Quinoa Salad with tahini, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice.  Yum!

Work in progress of the 3rd page of my fabric book.  This page will introduce the chickens.  Honey the Buff Orpington is not on there because she is getting her very own page.

I still have to add the beaks and feet.  I call them Dinos because these chickens look the most like their ancestors and there is so many of them that is hard to tell them apart.

Baby Barn Swallows!  They look so angry and tough!  They hardly fit in their nest anymore.

Snap peas!  We have been harvesting many snap peas and snow peas.  Today we harvested 64 pounds of snap peas!

Cauliflower is so cool.

When they get about the size of a fist we "blanch" them, which means we tie the leaves around the cauliflower to keep it white, or else it turns yellow.

Little purple kohlrabi!

We will be harvesting green beans tomorrow.

A bed of carrots growing bigger each day beneath the ground.

And my favorite, onions!