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Garden Potatoes, Pastured Pork Belly, Chow, and Sourdough Bread

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Garden Potaoes, Pastured Pork, and Sourdough Bread

Notice the date of this Post, 29 Feb 2024, and We’re still eating out of the Garden! Even though the Garden is long gone, Potatoes are one of those things that last for months when properly stored. Chow, made from Green Tomatoes harvested last Summer, keeps well in the Pickle Jars. Our Pastured Pork, and this Pork Belly, is so succulent and tasty, it’s incredible. The Sourdough Bread, made from our own Starter, who we call John Dough, is just the right contrast to the potatoes and the sweetness of the meat and chow.I also want to take a moment to acknowledge our friend, Sandy, for making the Chow! Made from our Fresh Green Garden Tomatoes last Summer, with our help, but so nice of Sandy to help us.  Knowing, that tomorrow is March 1st, and we have leftovers, means we will have eaten during nine months of the Year from last Year’s Garden!

We’ve Waited Three Years For This!

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Our First Complete Meal

Seems strange, I know, but we really have waited (actually worked) three years for this! Oh, we’ve had a variety of vegetables and meats over the past three years. Vegetables and meats we’ve grown and raised. Many good meals! 

However, this is the first time we’ve provided ourselves with a complete meal with Meat, Potatoes, Vegetables, and Salad. It’s as much of a timing thing and a growing thing! 

Yet, when it all comes together, especially for the first time, it’ll darn near bring tears to one’s eyes! Knowing it is really possible to grow our own food and put complete meals on the table! 

Salad with lettuce, radish, onion greens, Swiss chard, and more. Followed by Irish Cobbler Potatoes, Provider Green Beans, Gold Rush Yellow Beans, Stanhope Peas, and Woodland Pastured Berkshire Pork. 

I did an earlier post today about “Our First Harvest”. It was actually just half of our first Harvest at the Barn Property, as we divided it giving half away and keeping some for ourselves. Making two remarkable meals!

Recent Rains Caused Excessive Weeds

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Briden Farm Lower Garden

We’ve had some recent rainfalls that have washed out road ways, and flooded gardens. According to CBC, “June completely erased Nova Scotia’s rain deficits of early spring“! Global reports that, “Halifax just had its 3rd-rainiest June on record.” Reading those articles one also learns that Kejimkujik, located about 10 miles from us, had its rainiest June ever! The trend has continued! On July 1st, in about an hour and a half, Bear River got so much rain it washed the roads out! Or at least several parts of them! 

All this rain led to parts of our garden being under water! Maybe next year we’ll plant Rice! Meanwhile, it has meant my digging trenches, doing my best to divert water, and even with all that the ground has still been too wet for me to walk on it. So, not being able to get in the Garden, has led to weeds! Lots and lots of weeds! As You can see… 

Briden Farm Lower Garden

Which led me to finally getting in there today, tilling and hilling, and sweating! The temperatures reached into the 30s Celsius (or nearly 90 F). It wasn’t easy, but I got t done! Approximately 7,000 Sq Ft of Garden, all Tilled. Hilling about 200’ of Corn and Potatoes! I still have about 120’ of Potatoes to hill, and then weeding! Lots and lots of Weeding! 

The reason I did so much last night, and today in the heat, was I wanted to get ahead of the rain forecast for this weekend. I was thinking today was Friday! Not! It’s only Thursday! So, now, maybe I will get caught up by the weekend!