the power of the sun, in the palm of my hands...

yep, that's right - here's the new solar cell phone charger i got with my new plan with working assets. haven't used it yet, but seems like it'll be pretty good. one more step away from the grid...

(note to potential purchasers of said charger - it's like 5 times bigger than it looks on the working assets website. not huge, just bigger than they represent it)

tomatillos

this plant got huge. it took over a whole section of the garden, shooting out blossoms like they were going out of style. but they never went to fruit - they'd just flower and then fall off. all summer long. then, as the other plants died away and summer started ending, we noticed that little tomatillo casings were popping up all over it! well, now frost has hit the plant and it's dying - so today we harvested what we could before they were ruined. made us a whole lot of tomatillo salsa (mainly using tomatillos from our csa...)! that's nice.

chest freezer!

after the one we found in someone's driveway ended up not working, we broke down and got a brand-spankin' new one.

you could get one just like it here.

we just transferred a bunch of stuff from our regular freezer to the new chest freezer, and it's very exciting. also, over the next few weeks we're going to buy a ton of local veggies (mainly leafy greens - collards, especially) to freeze, so we can eat local as much as possible during the off season. should be great!

dinner 12 october 2007

israeli couscous
sauteed with onion, then cooked with cranberry bean water from last night

smart ground
fake ground beef sauteed with tomatoes from our garden, maine garlic, and scallions, spring onions, and small, hot green peppers from buckwheat blossom farm

red leaf lettuce
salad with arugula and sweet yellow carrots (all from buckwheat blossom), and sliced almonds

olive loaf
standard baking company, portland, maine

organic syrah
green bridge, california

fresh garbanzo beans
soulstein garden harvest - we got 11. ate most of 'em green, rather than dry. never had a green chickpea before!

yum!

(writer's note: potted plant in picture is artie, our artichoke that we just dug up from our mostly unsuccessful garden - we're going to try growing it indoors...)