Yesterday, our town had our first ever farmers’ market! It was great. We pikced up broccoli, strawberries and lettuce. Yummy!
I am trying to make more salads these days. I am also working on losing weight (when am I not?) but the brownies I made last night didn’t help!
I often look at my friend M’s Blog, Rural Aspirations, and I am amazed because she is able to do so much at home. Granted, she has chosen a simpler life and only her husband works out of the home right now and she can be with the kids and garden and such, but still, I wish I could do it all. I really enjoy work, but I want to do more local stuff. Less driving, more biking (although we should be able to do this when Luna’s in Kindergarten and we don’t have to drive her to daycare too!) We are currently growing tomatoes and 2 green bean plants (from Soleil’s school), but next year? I want a small garden. Just a little bit of broccoli and lettuce and such.
Sigh.
BTW- the party was great, we had an impromptu sleepOVER (we were planning a sleep under, but when it was time for Soleil’s friend to go home, the girls BEGGED for a sleep over. R did great! Her first ever!) The next day, after the rain ended, we celebrated Father’s Day and our anniversary (#12) with a 10 mile bike ride! Soleil did the whole thing! Luna rode in the bike seat.
We hit our local farmers market a few Sundays ago and we were VERY disappointed. There was NOTHING and what was there was not good.
Aw shucks! I’m slowly getting the hang of this local thing. I will say with regards to gardening that the Square Foot Gardening method is VERY low maintenance. Once you build the boxes and fill them up, there’s not much to do! So I would highly recommend that for working mamas!