Channeling Sophie's Garden

Carol's garden is in Port Hope MI, in a rural, lakeside community. She has lots of space and expertise. Laura' garden is located in Centralia WA, in a small suburban yard challenged by access to sun and space. Debbie's garden is in Deckerville MI, in a smaller rural yard, where rules are ignored.

Each of us is applying what we learned at at our mother's and grandmother's knees in space once owned by Sophie Mayer Birg Harter on Rangeline Road. Sophie immigrated to Detroit in 1908 from Heufeld, a once German (Donauschwaben) community of Hungary. Her hope lives on.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Fresh goodies!!





The garden is starting to produce, plus we picked strawberries at a friends. We have enjoyed fresh greens, tomatoes, strawberries, and kohlrabi. Eating good in the neighborhood this week. The flowers are coming along nice, the red blaze climbing rose is gorgeous and full of full blooms. The lilly's are blooming, think i am going to add some for next year. I forgot to take a picture of the delphinium but it is beautiful. We made jam, froze berries and have been eating lots of fresh ones. I picked a handful of gooseberries and raspberries yesterday yumm yumm. Of course I made bread too so we could have BLT's.

2 comments:

  1. Here's what I want to know. . . how did you get the bread to grow like that?

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  2. Everything grows well in Port Hope HaHa. It is my secret recipe, if you are really nice I might share!! I got to thinking how much work goes into a BLT. you have to grow the wheat for the bread, the corn or other feed for the pork, you have to butcher and smoke the meat, you have to plant the seeds for the lettuce and tomato and then there is the mayo, you have to have chickens for the egg yolks, vegetable oil, you get my point, but how often do we really think about how much goes into our meals? Probably more of an answer than you were looking for.

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