Grow food. Eat food. Even the cow is from family.
Eating WAY Local
August 4, 2026
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Flowers and Vegetables: Summer in Virginia
August 4, 2026
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We grew all this stuff.
First flowers…by the guesthouse.
Then the garden
Food!
Fall Vegetables
October 15, 2025
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Fresh peppers in late September. Peppers? Peppers!!
Did you see the September summer squash? A volunteer!
With an unwelcome visitor.
Two tiny carrots.
And the only Brussels sprouts that survived the flea beetles (no pesticide).
A reminder why growing a garden is a great idea.
Peanut Butter and Tomato
August 21, 2025
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This “Michael” thing seems to be spreading.
The Last Tomato Sandwich of the Summer
September 21, 2014
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The equinox will be here in 2 days and it’s still summerlike in Virginia. Sadly, the garden is winding down. There’s stuff to harvest, but that won’t last too much longer.
Two hours of cleaning in the garden happened today.
Corn gone brown.
Corn gone.
Down.
Ghost peppers thriving. Watch out!
Equinox harvest
Sadly, that purple thing is an eggplant. I have failed as a gardener.
The volunteer sycamore is getting too big for the garden now.
Garden Apex in Late August
August 24, 2014
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Garden produce from two days.
When the garden is in high production, picking every day or two is pretty much a good idea. This is probably the last week of super high garden production. After two days, a sweep brought in: corn, tomato, onion, pepper, squash, basil, beet.
There’s plenty more to pick and the garden will likely go into October, but this is likely the peak of production for 2014.
