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Summer Classes

Summer Classes:

Aug 4--Driftless Folk School, Viroqua, day long class, http://driftlessfolkschool.org/   

(also solar oven class)

Aug 8--Olbrich Gardens, Madison, evening class.  http://www.olbrich.org/education/classes.cfm#workshops

Freezer Containers

The Freezer containers I like to use:

http://www.arrowplastic.com/store/catalog.asp?item=190

Meal Recipes to Freeze

Cabbage Roll Stew

Cooked tomatoes

Browned ground beef/ground pork
cabbage

salt and pepper to taste

sauerkraut(optional)

caraway seeds (optional)

Boil until cabbage is cooked.  Freeze.  Serve over rice.

Summer Squash Curry Stew Base

Olive Oil

Curry Powder
Brown Mustard Seeds

Heat oil in heavy skillet.  Add curry powder and mustard seeds.  When mustard seeds start to pop, like popcorn--add:

Summer Squash cubed

1/4-to 1/3 as much Onion as Summer Squash

Garlic

Tomato (little for moisture or a lot for flavor)
Peppers
Salt and Pepper

Cook in oven or crock pot, until a soft stew.

Cooked Beans (optional)

Cooked Greens (optional)
Coconut milk (optional)

Freeze.  Thaw simmer, add carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, greens(optional), broccoli in order for cooking required.  Can add meat, if desired.

Onions and Peppers Pasta Sauce

1 part Onions

1 part Bell Peppers
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper
Hot peppers (optional)

Simmer about 1 hour, until soft and melted together.  Freeze.

Thaw and toss with pasta.

Beans and Greens (Italian, Curry or Herbs flavors work well)

Cook dry beans

Half way through cooking beans, add:

Heat Oil in pan and simmer flavoring ingredients--then add to beans

Onions

Garlic

Last 10 to 20 minutes of cooking beans add:

Raw greens (kale, chard, spinach, lambs quarters)

I keep adding greens until there is 10 to 30 percent greens.

Freeze.

Teaching this Weekend--Viroqua, WI

I will be teaching classes this weekend in Viroqua at the Driftless Folk School

http://driftlessfolkschool.org/courses/low-maintenance-sustainable-gardening

Sad Day for gardening

Mother faces 93 days in jail for veggie garden in front yard.

http://news.yahoo.com/oak-park-mother-faces-jail-time-front-yard-185800754.html

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/07/gem-week-jail-time-gardening

Happy Day!! Town's goal--grow their own food

Carrots in the car park. Radishes on the roundabout. The deliciously eccentric story of the town growing ALL its own veggies
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html#ixzz1tX3ar8qk

Their site:  http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/home