Busy Sunday

Today, I’ve:

• Built a cold-smoking cabinet/mini-smoke house
• Cursed the sun because just as I finished the latter, it came out and made it too hot to cold smoke cheese without it melting all over the place
• Cleaned out the chicken coop
• Hung out a load of washing, which, of course, caused the sun to go in
• Jumped for joy because the lack of sun meant I could start smoking
• Started smoking three types of cheese (more on this in another post)

• Supervised John making his first loaf of bread
• Planted out various things from the porch – most notably leeks (a bit late but between the weather and their skinniness, I had to wait a while)
• Sowed spring cabbages & more kale
• Harvested the last of the bolted spinach and gave it to the delighted chickens
• Sowed more spinach for us to have as salad and the chickens after that
• Weeded the long bed
• Planted out some more squashes (again, a bit later but there are so many of them, I’ve been trying to stagger them a bit… hopefully work out ok)
• Rearranged the plants in the sun-porch so everything gets better access to light
• Harvested some courgettes, potatoes, salad and herbs to fulfil ones of my goals for the year: make a meal using only things I’ve grown & foraged
• Made said meal
• Enjoyed said meal
• Marvelled at how said meal was not only measured in feed metres not miles, it was also zero waste
• Written this list

And it’s still only 6pm – there is still plenty of the day left for more fun antics!

Other posts you might like:

Smoked cheese – my first attempt at cold smoking Growing salad leaves – frugal, organic & green First courgettes from the garden Lessons from our garden so far