The sun and warm weather continues and, although we still have no rain, summer continues in the garden and on our dinner table. Yesterday my wife made a delicious pesto chicken and potato dish and added the pesto sauce to a stir fry zucchini mix. She had made the pesto from the abundant basil that continues to grow in the gardens. Tonight it was fresh, homemade salsa on steak tacos that, thanks to garden tomatoes, was the delicious food of the day. The weekdays, when my wife works, I cook and hope to continue, as long as the garden provides, a taste of the garden at the dinner table each night.
The abundance of garden crops came to Church today as a member of our Church brought bags of fresh lettuce and spinach from Growing Power to hand out courtesy of Will Allen of Growing Power. There were at the giveaway table small cups of Growing Power cherry tomatoes. After Church, as the rest of us snacked on doughnuts, my wife had some tomatoes. She said they were good but not as good as the cherry tomatoes we grow at home.
As my outside gardens slow down producing as ultimately they will, I hope to start the growing in the sun room. Although the solar box for the roof of my sun room seems remote, since I do not have anyone yet to build it, I definitely plan to step up food production in the sun room this winter. I am not sure quite how yet but the challenge is there to embrace.
Someone recently reminded me that we can only do what we can do. I believe that is true but I also am aware of the fact that we have within ourselves much more capability that we ever use. So as the summer garden season slowly fades to the fall but the growing continues, I work to do what I can do, while knowing there is more. Consistently growing!
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