Homestead Food Diary

This will be the last one that I'm going to post on a weekly basis because I think I've gotten the idea across. Unlike many commercial style farms, a small homestead like mine produces small amounts of a variety of food stuffs on an ongoing basis. That's not to say that other homesteads operate like this. If I were living in an area with a limited growing season, then you'd see me harvesting a large crop then preserving it in some fashion, for example canning. But where I'm located I can produce something edible year around. 

So here it goes for the final viewing......

Planted

Homestead

     Sweet potatoes

     Potatoes, two varieties

     Onions, two varieties

     Sunflowers

     Beans

     Beets

     Papaya

     Lilokoi

     Coconuts

     Bananas

     Apple trees

     Flax 

     Sesame

     Acquired one rooster (I didn't plant him, nor do I plan to eat him) 

Seed Farm

     Beans

     Taro

     Cotton 

Community Garden

     Potatoes, 3 varieties

     Onions, 2 varieties

     Turnips

     Beets

     Chard

     Radish

     Daikon

     Yacon

     Bok choy

Harvested

 

Homestead

     Eggs

     Chicken

     Chard

     Beets

     Beans, snap

     Peas, snap

     Peas, shell

     Sweet potatoes

     Pipinola

     Lemons

     Guavas

     Various herbs

     Mamaki 

     Taro

     Limes*

     Bananas*

     Jackfruit*

     A Mouflon roast*

     Fresh fish*

     Turkey*

     Jicama*

     Turmeric*

     Lettuce*

     Cherry tomatoes*

     Poi*

     Beef bones*

     Coffee*

     Oranges*

     Lilokoi*

     ( *= traded for) 

Seed Farm

     Beans

     Pumpkin

Community Garden

     Beans, 6 varieties

     Green onions

     Various herbs

     Kale

     Spinach

     Bok choy

     Green shelled beans

     Eggplant

     Sweet potatoes, 2 varieties

     Potatoes, 3 varieties

Homestead Food Diary

You asked for it, here it is. This is a list of the various foods that the homestead effort produced this past week, or started in the various gardens. 

Planted

Homestead

     Taro

     Sweet potato

     Pumpkin

     Pipinola

     Lilokoi 

     Green beans

     Peas

     Beets

     Potatoes

     

Seed Farm

     Beans, two varieties

     Lima beans, two varieties

Community Garden

     ---Started seeds for....

     Broccoli

     Cabbage

     Basil

     Green onion

     Leeks

     Carrots

     Beets

     Chard

     Spinach

     ---Direct planted....

     Radishes

     Daikon

     Turnips

     Potatoes

Harvested

Homestead

     Oranges

     Lemons

     Tangerines

     Tangelos

     Beets

     Chard

     Taro

     Sweet potatoes

     Pipinola

     Bananas

     Guavas

     Green beans

     Peas, shelling type

     Peas, snaps

     Onions

     Jicama

     Eggs

     Chicken

     Honey

     Various herbs

     Coffee

     Sugar cane

     Mouflon*

     Avocado*

     Goat cheese*

     Fish*

     Squash*

     Bananas*

     Tumeric*

     Cherry tomatoes*

     Papayas*

     Coffee*

     Limes*

     (*= traded for) 

Seed Farm

     Pumpkin

     Lima beans 

     Green beans, two varieties

Community Garden 

     Kale

     Spinach

     Green onion

     Eggplant

     Snow peas 

     Various herbs

     Daikon

     Red skin potatoes

     Green beans, 4 varieties 

     Radishes

     Bok choy

     

Homestead Food Diary

This past week........

Planted

Homestead

     Sweet potatoes

     Taro

     Tumeric

     Green beans

     Beets

     Yacon

     Jerusalem artichokes

Seed Farm

     Taro

     Sweet potatoes

     Peas

Community Garden 

     Beans, 3 varieties

     Peas

     Carrots

     Turnips

     Daikon

     Radish

     Beets

     Chard

     Spinach

Harvested

Homestead

     Taro

     Oranges

     Bananas

     Pipinola

     Green beans

     Green onions

     Chard

     Sweet potatoes

     Beet greens

     Beets

     Various herbs

     Eggs

     Mulberries*

     Limes*

     Lemons*

     Papaya*

     Jackfruit*

     (* = traded for)

Seed Farm

     Nothing

Community Garden

     Eggplant

     Beans, several varieties

     Peas, snow

     Spinach

     Kale

     Daikon

     Radishes

     Herbs

     Chinese kale

Homestead Food Diary

This past week.......

Planted............

Homestead

     Taro

     Sweet potatoes

     Green beans

     Cowpeas

     Bok choy (started seeds)

     Mustard greens (started seeds)

     Tomatoes, cherry and paste (started seeds)

     Peas, snap 

Seed farm

     Pea, snap

     Pea, shell

     Papaya (started seeds)

Community Garden

     Pea, snap

     

Harvested........

Homestead

     Sweet potatoes

     Lemons

     Oranges 

     Bananas

     Eggs

     Chicken

     Pipinola

     Lilokoi

     New Zealand Spinach

     Green beans

     Snap peas

     Chard

     Kale 

     Various herbs

     Chinese kale

     Taro

     Pumpkin

     Mamaki leaves

     Goat milk

     Jackfruit 

     Limes

     Mulberries

  

Seed farm

      Bean seed, 4 varieties

      Sweet potato cuttings

Community  Garden

     Radish

     Mint

     Snow peas

     Green beans

     Eggplant

My Homestead Food Diary

I've been asked many, many times to list what I'm planting, harvesting, foraging, and otherwise bringing in to support the homestead life.....and list it on an ongoing basis. I've finally giving in to the requests. I will start posting a weekly diary, for a while at least. We'll see how it goes. Keep in mind that I work a little bit on my gardens practically every day. A little here, a little there. So I will just tally things up and post them once a week. I hope this helps those interested readers in getting ideas for their own self-sufficient lifestyle projects. Just keep in mind if you're trying to emulate my efforts that I can generate food year around here, which is different than most regions. 

Since the community garden workers come together on Tuesdays, Tuesday evenings would be a good time to post this info. I can list what went on with my personal homestead and what went on in the community area.  Rather than go into detail about how much, I'm just going to list what got planted & harvested. I'm not OCD, so I'm not big on details. And quite honestly, if I start keeping detailed records like that, it will cause me to lose interest. Instead of this being fun, it will become drudgery. Ugh. So just assume that most things are just a bit of this and that. 

One more thing. I'm listing the Community Garden because I do my share of work there, thus share in the harvest which helps sustain the homestead. 

So here it goes for this past week...............

PLANTED

Homestead:

... Taro, dasheen type

... Sweet Potato, orange variety

... Snap peas, Tender Sweet

... Green Bean, Maxibel

... Lilokoi plants, several

Seed Farm:

... Assorted succulent cuttings

Community Garden:

... Potatoes, 3 varieties

... Green Beans, Maxibel and Provider

... Snap peas, Sugar Ann

... Radishes, French Breakfast

... Turnips, Tokyo Cross

HARVESTED (includes foraged and traded for)

Homestead: eggs, bananas, taro (dasheen and poi), sweet potatoes, green beans, chard, beets, spinach, kale, various herbs, lilokoi, mulberries, ground beef, sweet rolls

Seed farm: nothing

Community Garden: radishes, kale, sweet potatoes, green beans, snow peas