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...for some of the best things from the garden. As I write this I'm having a bowl of cereal with a big handful of fresh blackberries picked in the backyard. Tommorow I'll go to the farmers market for local sweet corn and vine-ripe tomatoes. The Stonington market also has seafood - lobster, flounder, and especially the small, bright-red local cold-water shrimp with flavor to shame Gulf shrimp. Then there's fresh farm cheeses, zucchini, radishes and the early Macintosh apples, more sweet corn, did I mention sweet corn? And the blackberries are good for about another week of picking a handful as I go by the bush in the backyard. Ummmm......
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Just as it gets to the time of year when I'd like to go up to the local swimming hole and hang out in the summer sun, it's time to package and process for winter. Cam, not only is the garden producing wonders, but this year has been a bonanza for king salmon. The albacore are starting to pass this way, the woodshedds need filling. We freeze salmon and can the tuna. There is work in all of it, but it sure is fun doing it too.
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What Rick said. There's work in all of it. Exactly why I DIDN'T plant a garden this year. LOL!
Luckily, we have a local farmer's market 5 min from us that carries all locally grown produce. I've never had carrots taste so sweet and fresh unless it's pulled from my very own garden a minute before indulging.
When visiting, my mom gets excited about our rhubarb plant. I give her clippers and a basket and tell her to go for it. She comes back next visit with jam. Sounds like a pretty decent swap to me.
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Ah! The bounties of a New England summer. A chef's delight. We've tried growing stuff here in the desert but it just doesn't work. It's just not the same getting stuff from the grocery store.
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Aye rrright laddie! Nought better'n a great steamin' haggis, with neeps and tatties and some Tennents scot's ale - perhaps a dram of Highland Park after dinner. Here's to sheep and Scotland!
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Lots of blackberries here too, sometimes the wife makes jelly and pies from them. Also in the woods here are wild blueberries, huckleberries, elderberries, wild scuppernongs, pecans, and mayhaws. Venison...mighty fine...my son and I will harvest some of that this fall and winter.
Our garden this year had turnips, collards, mustard, red potatoes, okra, sweet corn, field corn, snap beans, carrots, broccoli, cabbages, tomatos, peanuts, english peas, onions, garlic...
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