Saturday
Utilizing our newly procured B.O.B. trailer we successfully foraged at the local farmers market for fresh veg-edibles and a few new garden plants. We felt incredibly smug pedaling home with our market fare rolling along in such a stylish way. Car-free appears to be the height of green-urban-society-life-choice right now and we got lots of questions and compliments (imagine if I'd been riding and S.U.B). On the ride home we stopped to forage a basket-full of apples from the feral trees along the bike path.
Mint from my garden. Great for teas, baths, mojitos, tzatziki sauce, but also my biggest weed. Transplanted from a 4 inch pot and now covers most of my spice garden.
We got some strange looks from other folks dropping off recycling (all driving cars and leaving them idling while disposing of recyclables) but that's half the fun of using your bike for these round-the-town errands.
The new bike trailer loaded down with market purchases: basket of veggies, blueberry bush, honey fig tree
Spoils of a successful market forage: asian eggplant, casper eggplant, oyster mushrooms, heirloom tomatoes, purple peppers, red onion, and blue potatoes. All locally grown and purchased from the producer (smug, smug, smuggity, smug.)
Apples and pears from feral trees, possibly the beginnings of a future fermentation experiment.
Sunday
The bees had finally lost interest in my lavender bushes so it was time to harvest. It was very productive year. Later we discovered a cooler fits nicely on the new trailer and is very handy for grocery shopping expeditions. We also attempted our first mead making experiment Sunday evening with a large jar of meadowfoam honey. I'll try to share fermentation pictures in a later post.
Enough English lavender to set four large bundles to dry.
The bob trailer is just the right size for hauling a cooler. I can think of so many wonderful reasons you'd want to bring a cooler with you...
Monday
Major trimming of the spice garden. Saved enough mint to dry one large bundle and composted the rest, also saved smallish bundles of thyme, marjoram and oregano (I prefer them fresh, but a little dried can't hurt). Another exciting bicycle expedition, this time to the recycling plant and picking blackberries for another fermentation experiment (more on that to come).
Mint from my garden. Great for teas, baths, mojitos, tzatziki sauce, but also my biggest weed. Transplanted from a 4 inch pot and now covers most of my spice garden.
We got some strange looks from other folks dropping off recycling (all driving cars and leaving them idling while disposing of recyclables) but that's half the fun of using your bike for these round-the-town errands.
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