Planted: Nope, only transplanted, for the farmer’s market — bell peppers, cayenne peppers, aloe vera houseplant babies.
Harvest something: Nope again.
Preserve something: Triple nope!
Store Something: Sheesh, didn’t I do *anything* last week? It felt like an incredibly busy week, but I guess not in the categories of the challenge. Didn’t store anything new.
Manage Reserves: Erm… Gah.
Prepped: Major fence progress! It’s close enough to done that tonight I planted some stuff (that will count on next week’s report).
Worked on Local Food Systems: Prepared seedling starts to take to first farmer’s market saturday (I’m writing this saturday evening, it went great, but again, that’s for THIS week… :) I also brought some cayenne starts to my herbalist friend. I also participated in a symposium held last weekend that, while it didn’t focus on local food, it did focus on local community sustainability in a sense, and given that gas has hit $5 in the valley here, the conversations drifted toward local food on various occasions.
Reduced Waste: Continued transforming urine into deer repellent. Have been using fruit tree prunings as vertical extensions to the fence (photos soon, I promise!)
Cooked something new: The garlic bread I mentioned last week was actually made on Saturday so it should have been counted as this week, but I forgot. Nothing new this week — due to the conference and some other activities I ate out a lot this week, and just made “same ol’ same ol’” beans and rice or salad when I was at home.
Learned a new skill: Made newspaper peat pots in which to sell seedlings. Followed the basic steps determined from googling a couple of sites. Went pretty well!
