Spring moving right along................

[M-L]

The asparagus is starting to come up along the creek and the wetter
areas round the crown land and roadsides. So on our return from picking
and bagging grass for our animals, from places where it grows more
vigorously and lush, we stop and harvest it. Enjoying the seasonal
diversity it delivers to our diet. There are more people living in the
area, and yet the pressure on the asparagus is no greater than it was
ever. Many of these new people either don't know there is asparagus
growing along the creek, or just can't be bothered to go looking for
and picking it, when it's so easy to buy in a tin off the supermarket
shelf. They look at us strangely if we say we're going to pick
asparagus along the creek.

The modern day hunters and gatherers only work in one area, that being
the field of the supermarket. Where are the harvesters of the berries,
crab apples and stone fruit that have grown from the pip, discarded by
the occupants through the window of a passing car, growing in thickets
wherever the mechanical mower or harvester finds the ground to rough or
steep?

We are like lazy overseers, allowing the plants to grow just as nature
intended, watching just the same, to see what might be expected in the
yet far distant autumn if we're spared to be out amongst almost
untouched bounty. The wild places are always exciting.

Be well,
Charlie
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[Steve]

Hi Charlie,

 

Great to hear you have that forage situation going with the asparagus..

 

I've been encouraging a few crowns in the big sheet mulch bed at the house, and I'd like to put in about ten more, now that the perennials and trees are filling in and finding their niches.

I love just eating it raw after cutting - mind you, I don't need as much when it's raw.  It might seem finicky, but I can't bring myself to eat store-bought veggies raw, most of the time.  It feels "safer" to at least shock them or steam them a bit.

I guess I know what I put on my plants.

 

We've got some more fruit trees in the ground this year, and half a dozen garden beds I established with the chicken cage are looking really good.  They will be the basis of some new pockets of fertility. 

 

Right now, I'm spreading layers of compost and hay on the old no-dig beds and direct-seeding some fall plants..  stinging nettles, jiao-gu-lan, cilantro, burdock and borage, for the moment.  It would be great to get some more of our own medicine from our own garden.

 

Hope you have a great week. 

 

Peace,

 

 

 Steve.

 

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