The Veggie Garden

Our garden provides us with a huge array of foods. In an average year, we grew a variety of salad greens, kale, carrots, potatoes, summer squash, zucchini, blue hubbard squash, acorn squash, butternut squash, buttercup squash, spinach, parsnips, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, belgian endive, beets, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, green beans, wax beans, soybeans, onions, garlic, gourds and pumpkins. We also have a 3 year old asparagus bed which has just started to produce.

The garden feeds us not only in the summer months, but throughout the year. We spend a lot of time freezing, drying and canning the harvest to preserve it for the winter.

One of our favorite times of year is County Fair time. In 2007 and 2009 we submitted several entries for the judging and walked away with blue ribbons for every vegetable we entered (see our blue ribbon carrots above), as well as a third place in 2007 and first place in 2009 for our maple syrup.