Shortening Eat Local Challenge to ELC! I wasn’t able to make it to the Wednesday farmers market yesterday but luckily I had some leftover sauteed portabellos, long beans, black eyed peas and eggplant. I mixed this with some Texmati rice and will probably be doing the same tomorrow. However tomorrow I will be getting my first Greenling delivery and I am super excited to see what the “Just Local Produce” box has in it. I am dying for fruit as I really haven’t eaten any since I started my pre-challenge. I don’t know how much fruit I can find during the fall or winter so I know what I will be doing next summer: canning and preserving summer fruit!
HEB Far West didn’t have any local produce but Matt, my husband, works there and sent me home with about 20 pounds of fruit and veggie scraps for our composter. I also planted a ton of romaine lettuce and some more cabbage in the garden. I have officially run out of room so I planted the remaining cabbage and some collards in the front flower beds. We’ll see what happens. I also started radishes from seeds today. It says they are ready in 22 days which sounds good to me because I am incredibly impatient.
Courtney's garden as of 10/1/09
Also, Jen from www.eatlocalchallenge.com got back to me and said that the post about the challenge starting should be up shortly – so keep checking it and sign up!
