Harvest 2020 – Our garden takes care of us in the wonky beginnings
It was already summer when Jan really joined me here in my Quinta and we slowly started. Mostly with cleaning the place up. We started with a little bit here and there. Often the stuff that we sow is not coming up, but the garden brings up what is in my eyes already plenty of amazing foods from perennials like fennel, rosemary, parsley, cabbage artichokes, kurkuma and different fruit trees. Here you see the foods we have prepared with our garden treasures. It is so amazing for me to just go outside whenever I want and find something edible to add to my meals!
For me it felt like we were getting into stress sometimes about making a good garden (with all this talking about food shortage during these crazy times and just in general in the enthusiasm of doing meaningful work after having the big dream of our own garden been fulfilled after decades of waiting and disappointing experiences), but Mother Nature tells us: „You can take it slowly. Trust, just enjoy. I provide everything that you need right now.“
Ananas-Banana, fruit of the Monstera deliciosa, Philodendron. This fruit lives up to its name! Super delicious, but really make sure it is ripe and the scales fall of by themselves, or it is too acidic and stings in the mouth, and is also probably not good for the gut. Also don´t wait too long so it doesn´t start to spoil. 
So proud of my first harvest of Avocados and bananas! I was man-less in that late winter in my Quinta. Now I can see that I harvested them both too early, but hey, constant learning! 
First potatos! Wow, this was actually super easy and rewarding! 
What lovely artichokes, just Wow! And the plants keep coming back every year. 
Always a must-have… 
The flowers of the different cabbage types that grow here everywhere. 
Rutabaga 
This was in the end of May, oh wow, I just felt soo wealthy and endowed. 
Fennel and sage flowers. Nice for tea! 
First corn in August! Quite small but still cool! 
Some small beginnings 
These macadamias we got from a friend. So creamy and full of good fats! 
Bananas! 
I´m trying to make the seeds of the fennel and some other herbs like rosemary into something that I can easily and quickly use in dishes. 
First pumpkin, the seeds we love to roast (good for that are the seeds from e.g. spaghetti and butternut squash. Not big woody seeds like from Hokkaido) 
From a friend we could harvest tons of super good figs, what an experience! I was overeating the first time^^ 
End of september: The Aracas time starts! One of the fruits you can directly eat ripe from the tree. 
So interesting, first Chuchu! 
Like a mix of cucumber and potato. 
Dióspiro, Kaki, Caqui 
End of December: We can harvest the first Kurkuma!
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