Busy, Busy

I've been terrible about posting because I've been too busy doing the things I said I was going to write about! It's June and HOT here in SW Ohio and I've been spending a lot of time in the last few weeks getting my garden all planted and cooking with all the new produce that's becoming available. I am hoping my garden comes through and provides us with some food, assuming the woodchucks and baby bunnies that live in our yard don't get to it first.

I've also started to look into some projects that have happened and are happening in the area to get fresh local food to food pantries. Everyone is feeling the pinch with rising prices this summer, and many people in Butler County were struggling to feed themselves and their families before prices started to rise. Last month ended my old job at the Community Action Agency and I'm now working on an organic farm. I'm hoping that this kind of project can keep me in touch with the type of work that I was doing before. I don't really know where things are going at this point, only that there are some people in the area working on these projects and I hope to find some way to get involved.

Some projects that I've been busy with around the house include making garlic scape pesto, putting saucers of cheap beer around the garden to drown slugs and breaking lots of jars trying to find an efficient way to pasteurize milk. Pasteurization is going better, and the plants seem to be winning over the slugs, although I am half expecting to find college kids slithering across the yard in search of beer. Expect pictures to come of the garden experiment in all it's glory!