Rhubarb

It started to rain on and off yesterday so I decided to harvest some rhubarb. I just stewed it and added some sugar. Rhubarb is one of my favourites. Just cooked up with a little sugar. Although the next time I may go buy some strawberries and make a strawberry rhubarb crisp. Now that is what I am talking about. Or maybe a rhubarb buckle. MMMMMMM! When I make the rhubarb buckle and get the proportions right and if it is tasty, then I will post the recipe. I am terrible at measuring when I cook. I will have to make an effort from now on. I think the sweet and creaminess of the buckle will go perfectly with the rhubarb.

BRRRRRRRR

Yesterday I was planting most of the day in the cold and damp. It didn't rain until after I came in but the ground was wet and I was full of mud. Today I am going to plant some asparagus and harvest some rhubarb. I think I will just stew the first batch, but I want to eventually make a Rhubarb salsa or chutney. The rhubarb patch is pretty big. It is really healthy too. I can't take credit though it was here before we moved in.
If I have time I want to plant some peas. I can't wait for fresh peas they are so yummy. The kids like to eat them raw off the vine.

fiddleheads

Welcome

This morning as Steve my husband was packing to go away for a week and the kids needed to get ready so we could take him to the airport, I decided hey this is a great time to start a blog. I mean that is the perfect time right? Well in a sense it was, because these days if I don't do something right away then it does not get done. 
I am doing this blog for many reasons. The main reason is to promote our hobby farm. My husband and I will be selling fresh pesticide free produce, flowers and herbs at various farmer markets throughout the season and this blog will be a way for those who are interested to find out what we will be selling, when and where. We will also, if there is a demand for it, be delivering produce once a week to HRM. We hope to make eating healthy locally grown produce more accessible. 
This blog will allow you to get to know the people who grow the food you feed your family. To know exactly how your food is grown. 
So for some of you maybe that is too much information and you guys can skip the daily stories of our trials and triumphs and just go to the whats available and where section. For the rest of you we hope you enjoy our blog. I hope  you can identify with our family of four and the adventure that lays ahead. 


Electa (gone country) Graham