Life in Cleveland

Summer has been filled with lots of growth. Personal growth, well, that's questionable! But there's no doubt we've been a part of growing the most food we ever have before. From helping neighbors grow food, to helping at our community garden, to working in our own backyard, to going to my job everyday, we've seen the miracle of food up close and personal.

Lynea just started her new job teaching 3 year olds at a school that's just right down the road from us. We're happy to both be able to walk to work.

Then: The first day we planted with the youth at our community garden.

Now: The garden is thriving now!

This was just a normal day of harvesting at the community garden: varieties of lettuce, tons of tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, radishes, and herbs.

Harvesting rainbow carrots at my job site, the city farm.

Purple beauty sweet peppers!

Lynea recently surprised me with a trip to West Virginia for Labor Day weekend. We went rock climbing and white water rafting 

Sister?

We repelled off this cliff. Our guide was telling Lynea to "please back up!"

A little nap at this view.

Our rafting partners.

Another harvest.

Our backyard chickens getting some free range time.

We've been getting 2 eggs a day!

Potato harvest at work.

Summer

Here's a few things we've been up to lately:

Weekend with friends at a cabin in the woods.

It was the same place we went to on our honeymoon, only this time I had a toupee.

Wild Chanterelle mushrooms (and a chicken of the woods)! It was gratifying to go by the store afterwards and see them being sold for $12/pound.

Chanterelle and egg breakfast

 

Blueberry pickin' with Lynea's dad.

 I know I look funny, but the mosquitoes were that bad!