Day 1 - Here we go!!

Day one of the year-long adventure. I have been meaning to post once more before today, talking about the veggie plots...since I have already described the fruit trees.

We have eight small veggie plots. Four of them are "full-sun", two of them are partial sun, and the remaining two get some sun...but are shaded by our large Live Oak tree much of the day. In the four sunny plots I have the "hot crops". Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers. The next two are mixed use (bush beans do all right), the shady two are devoted to "cooler crops" like greens and peas. I do something in the plots thoughout the year...with winter growing a years worth of garlic in one plot.

All right. What did we get our first day?
1) a bunch of Chard ($3.00) (sauteed in our own garlic)
2) basket of stawberries ($2.00)
3) small basket of blueberries ($1.00)
4) one Aprium ($0.50)
5) one white nectarine ($0.50)

I need to get my scale...I misplaced it and will try to weigh things soon. Right now it is an approximation.. Aproximately $7.00 worth of produce in one day is a pretty good deal though...and oh you shoud have tasted the strawberries!! As my friend Scott said the other day, "Can't transport these!". Real garden strawberries ripened on the plant are just too soft and juicy.

Totals (year-to-date): $7.00

The Idea of this Blog

My goal from this blog is to show how a typical person can grow an organic garden that provides some kind of produce for themselves 365 days a year (366 on leap years). The official start of the "year" will be July 1st and I will give a list of what has been harvested and try to show what something like this would cost in a grocery store.

My family lives on a typical lot (1/8 of an acre) in a small town in Northern California. I have planted fruit trees since moving here and I will list them in a future post. We also have 8 small veggie garden plots and currently have two bee hives (for honey and pollination).