04 September 2018

August 2018 Food Totals

A garden bed with a variety of vegetables growing
New season (and a couple old) leeks, surrounded by squash and zuccini, Aug 2018
Vegetables:

33.5 oz chard
81 oz cherry tomatoes
12 oz cucumber
16.5 oz achocha
11.5 oz spring onion
5.5 oz Aztec broccoli
15 oz French beans
15.5 oz lettuce
13 oz zuccini
21.5 oz carrots
49.5 oz Savoy cabbage
5 oz runner beans
9 oz beets
1.5 oz basil
1 oz squash blossoms
101 oz tomatoes!
9 oz curly kale
4 oz patty pan squash

Total: 405 oz, or 25 lb 5 oz

Note:  I weigh all my vegetables after preparation:  peeling, trimming, etc.  Does not include fresh herbs which were too small an amount to weigh, i.e. less than 0.5 oz.

Fruit:

4 Sparta apples (not fully ripe)
50 Laxton Fortune apples
8 figs
22.5 oz plums (incomplete)

Eggs:

Total: 46 eggs from 7 hens
Total feed bought: 1 bag layers pellets (20 kg)

Preserves:

1/2 small jar salted French and runner beans
1/2 small jar dried savory
6 small jars plum jam
6 small jars apple jelly (from wild harvested apples)
1.5 large jars fermented salsa fresca
1 large jar sauerkraut
3 large jars zuccini relish (from gift zuccini)
1 medium bottle thyme vinegar
2 medium bottles mint sauce (mint from a friend's garden)

Homebrew:  

20 L cider bottled up
8 L new season cider begun, from wild harvested apples
8 L cider vinegar begun, using pulp leftover from cider making

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