8.15.2011

We Grow Children, Too

The girls look maniacal here, when, in fact, they were...
okay, they were maniacal.

There's nothing quite as satisfying as a contest to trim the most green beans using razor sharp knives.




Unless, that is, you have the choice of lip-syncing to the operatics of Charlotte Church,





concentrating, then grimacing, and then concentrating anew,





or nipping a few bites on the sly.






After taking these pictures, I made pickles while they finished. What a boon it is to have older children willing to help.








Oh. Because I have no idea where to place it, here is Mildred with an armful of kale. She's a kale-lover. (Can't you tell?)




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5 comments:

  1. Farmgirl8/16/2011 8:43 AM

    I love this. I want to come tend gardens with you and your beautiful girls- we seem to be fashioning similar worlds for our children, and that is just neat to me. And KALE... kale chips. Kale pizza. Kale-pecorino-pasta. Mildred, you are a wise girl.

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  2. Abigail8/16/2011 9:50 AM

    That's be great;I'd love to visit with you all if you ever passed through, for sure!

    I've thought the same thing about you and your boys as I read, except that you have a REAL farm and barns that are actually barns instead of dilapidated sadness--barns that, in fact, house ANIMALS instead of decades worth of odds and ends.

    Our garden, thankfully, is the genuine article, though, so I'm not a total failure. Three cheers for kale! Your ideas sound scrumptious. I'm totally stealing them.

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  3. Rebecca8/18/2011 10:58 AM

    Kale is one of my garden laments.

    Along with onions that never got in.

    And asparagus.

    And garlic.

    And potatoes.

    It occurred to me the other day, I am pretty good at planting fun stuff like beets and peppers (THAT DON'T GROW!) but I need to do a MUCH better job of growing sustainable foods. Like the staples above.

    Olive Garden has a MOST delicious soup using Kale and they post their recipes online. FYI. ;-)Of course, all health benefits will be negated by vast amounts of butter.

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  4. Abigail8/19/2011 1:28 PM

    My laments have to do with my herb garden. I've only got seven herbs, and some I didn't even plant enough of (hello, cilantro) to freeze for winter! Bah.

    Thanks for the Olive Garden tip. I'll have to check it out.

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  5. Abigail8/19/2011 8:13 PM

    (That should read seven "varieties" of herbs. Thankfully, I planted more than one plant of each variety.)

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