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99.9% Homegrown Soup

It’s hot as Hades and fires are burning everywhere. The last thing on my mind is to fire up the oven to make dinner.

Even though we’ve been harvesting squash for awhile now (see “Zucchini Anyone?”), it doesn’t really feel like a summer harvest until the tomatoes start showing up. This week, it’s official! They’re red and ready to start pickin’ at the Gardenerd test garden.

Although, to say that they’re red would be discriminatory. These heirloom tomatoes are ripening in nearly every color of the rainbow. Red is almost passe with all the delectable heirloom options out there.

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A Stinky Affair: the tale of a trip to the Gilroy Garlic Festival

In honor of the pile of
garlic bulbs which are curing on the counter behind me, it felt appropriate to reach into the archives and re-print an article I wrote for the Ocean View Farms newsletter several years ago. I hope
you enjoy it:

A Stinky Affair

It was a hot and sunny day in Gilroy. Despite my
olive skin and heavy doses of SPF 25, I still managed to develop a driver’s …