01 September 2017

August 2017 Food Totals

Williams pear, small but growing
Vegetables:

48 oz carrots
169.5 oz cabbage
2 oz cucumber
122.5 oz chard
89 oz potatoes
32 oz French beans
66 oz zuccini
5.5 oz radishes
51.5 oz runner beans
1.5 oz broccoli
2 oz celery
4 oz shallots
2 oz kale
14 oz onions
15.5 oz beets
3.5 oz mixed herbs (chives, thyme, tarragon, summer savory, etc)
20.5 oz tomatoes
3 oz lettuce
6.5 oz peas (dried weight)

Does not include fresh herbs (rosemary, thyme, dill, tarragon, chives, summer savory) which were too small a quantity to weigh, i.e. less than 0.5 oz.

Total:  659.5 oz or approximately 41 lb

Note:  I weigh all my vegetables after preparation:  peeling, trimming, etc. 

Fruit: 

3.5 oz blackberries (from volunteers, aka weeds)
2 Laxton Fortune apples
1 Sparta apple
2 figs
12 plums

Eggs:

Total:  111 eggs from 10 hens
Total feed bought: 2 bags layers pellets (40kg total)

Preserves:
3 medium jars pickled zuccini spears (zuccini from friend's garden, dill and garlic from my own garden)
1 medium bottle tarragon vinegar
1 small jar salted mixed herbs
4 large jars sauerkraut
1 large jar fermented French beans
1 small bag dried peas (6.5 oz)

Homebrew:  

Rhubarb wine and cider bottled up.  Elderberry/blackberry wine still fermenting.  2 new demijohns (8 L total) of cider begun brewing, from wild harvested apples.  Approximately 8 L of apple cider vinegar begun, using leftover pulp from cider.

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