Archive for the ‘B-F People’ Category
Wondering What’s Been Going Down on the Farm?
Perhaps the blog site has been a little quiet these days. As our lives get busier, the blog gets quieter. We have been cleaning out old beds and planting new seeds, harvesting tomatoes, okra, cucumbers, onions, squash, peppers, eggplants. We have been figuring out ways to use the different produce. Alex, the pepper lady, has made three different kinds of hot sauce. She has also been drying peppers for the winter, making a beautiful ristra out of the Red Rocket peppers, and hanging the Joe’s Long cayennes up to dry. We have made tomato soup, tomato sauce, salsa, dried tomatoes, canned whole tomatoes and eaten our weight in tomatoes. Our 9 – year-old son made salsa out of the first tomatillos and we put it in the freezer (after ample taste testing). We have made about seven different kinds of cucumbers. My onions are pulled and curing in the upstairs of the garage. In a week or so I will braid them and hang them in the house. We have been working on cleaning and sorting the garlic. Those of you who came by the stand on Thursday noticed that I had some out for sale. We have also prepared for the stand twice a week, sold the produce, and put together a few CSA’s on each Thursday.
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Down on the Farm…RECIPES
Check what is sprouting up on the web at the Wilson Street Urban Farm…
Farm Report: Construction Project in the Flower Bed
For an indeterminable amount of time before we ever thought of putting a garden on Wilson Street, people have been using the property as a cut-through to get from Strauss to Wilson or vice-versa.
Farm Report: The Great Garlic Harvest
Every year, now, for the past 9 or 10 years, the second week in July has meant harvesting the garlic. We plant the garlic in late October where it quietly and unobtrusively grows through the coldest part of the year. Because it is mulched in the winter, it requires very little from me during its growing season – the mulch seriously reduces weeds and the need for irrigation. But I watch…
Video: Pulaski Parade – 07/18/2010
Excerpt from parade on Sunday features B-F faves Saint Adalbert Basilica, Saint Stanislaus Church, Corpus Christi Church & Dyngus Day Buffalo.
Sister Johnice in Haiti
Today I received a email from Mike Gilhooly that Sister Johnice of the Response to Love Center is in Haiti.
Though the earthquake tragedy in Haiti six months ago is no longer front page news, there is still a lot that needs to be done in this devastated and poor country.
I was not all that surprised to hear that Sister Johnice is there.
The Response to Love Center will be posting updates from her while she is there on its website.
You can view these by clicking here—>
Goo Goo Dolls – HOME
The Goo Goo Dolls recently released their new single…their new album, Something For The Rest Of Us, will be out next month.
If you don’t know, the Goos have deep roots in B-F with Johnny Rzeznik growing up on Clark Street right near Corpus Christi.
I love the song…
