My First Almond!

We interrupt the Foraging 101 series to bring breaking news: Bethany has just harvested her very first almond!

Unfortunately the almond inside was all shriveled up and inedible, but you've got to start somewhere.

Growing celery and carrots!

A while back I stumbled upon a blog post about growing your own celery. I cleaned out the fridge and lo and behold! I found some old celery. There were also some very... mature carrots, so I threw the tops of those in my little "garden" as well. The other thing you see in there is a sprouted avacodo pit from a VERY ripe avacado. Let's just say this fridge was loaded. It all grew wonderfully for the first two weeks. Eventually I transplanted everything- the celery survived, the carrots and avacado didn't. I do have an avacado success though, growing in my office at work... maybe I'll post a picture sometime.

This is an sweet project for homeschoolers or other totally awesome people (like me) who enjoy and/or compulsively grow stuff. I wonder how long it would take to grow the celery to a stalk. Any courageous ones out there willing to try? Or am I all alone in this?

Green Onion Supply

One thing I've always wanted to do is have a hanging basket of fresh herbs, ready to pick whenever I want (even in the dead of winter). I think I'm getting closer.

A continuous green onion supply!

I fished these out of the back of the fridge, cut the wilted tops off and put them in a little vase with water and some marbles to hold them somewhat upright. Eventually they will grow so much that I'll have to water them every day, and the marbles will get overgrown with roots. I'm not sure how much green onions cost at the store, but whatever it is, these cost less. It's basically a free source of fresh vegetation.

Warning: Be aware that these are onions and, depending on the size of the room, could make it stink like onions. If you put it in the laundry room, it might smell like BO. Just a thought.