Fresh & Healthy: Our Garden – Cabbage, Tomatoes, Purple Beans, Green Beans, Strawberries, Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers, Peppers, Lettuce, and Peas!

We are loving the fresh vegetables from our garden!  I didn’t have a chance to take pictures last week with all the traveling, guests, and fun activities.  This week I did better at taking pictures but the girls ate a few items before the camera came out, they have been enjoying helping more in the garden now that they are on summer break from school.

Here are some of the fresh veggies we were able to eat and share this week:

A few strawberries, tomatoes, and some other veggies barely made it inside to be rinsed before they ate them so the pictures didn’t happen.  After picking one day the girls informed me “we picked a rainbow of food from our garden today Mom”.  We had a lot of stormy nights the past couple weeks with hail, heavy rain, and high winds.  We even had a tree fall down in the yard and break our fence during one of the storms.  The garden has “shifted” a little bit but thankfully continues to produce some goodies despite the damage.  We haven’t gotten a lot of any one vegetable or fruit but we have a nice variety of goodies to eat every week.  Plus we haven’t had to water for a couple weeks.

We were able to share some of the veggies this week with family, friends and people at our church.  During the summer months our church does a “Corner Harvest” where people can share fresh produce from their garden.  It is neat to see what other families are growing and share our produce.

What are you eating out of your garden this week?