Abundance

Summer is slowly coming to an end and the temperatures will hopefully be cooling down soon. We have been enjoying the abundance of fresh vegetables from our garden and strawberries too. There is nothing tastier than biting into a fresh tomato warmed by the sun. Our zucchini, green beans, scallions and brightly colored bell peppers fill our plates every day.
It is my prayer for you that each of you will always have a full plate of good things to eat.

#1 Burpless Cucumber, Hybrid Cucumber, Zucchini Bell Peppers
#2 Tomato, Purple Bell Pepper, Green Bell Pepper,
#3 Green Beans
#4 Lemon Cucumber in my husband’s hand
#5 Armenian Cucumber

Vegetable Rainbow ( repost)

There’s a rainbow of color in your vegetable aisle! Have you noticed that bright white cauliflower now has a purple friend? Or that green peppers aren’t always green? I don’t mean yellow, or red, I mean purple!

Purple, my favorite color! Is making its way onto the produce shelves. Thanks to hybrid farming your dinner plate can look like a rainbow. Now, I don’t mind trying something different so purple cauliflower may be the next new thing on our dinner table.

Our vegetable garden has been thriving this season. We are currently overwhelmed with fresh tomatoes. No complaints, we love them even if they are just a beautiful red color. I wonder if someone will develop purple tomatoes! That would be perfectly fine with me. I’ll plant them alongside the red ones.

Our green peppers are green and that’s just fine too. But next year, I think we’ll try purple ones and maybe purple carrots too. Maybe our grandchildren will eat more vegetables if they resemble candy.
Don’t forget to stop by your local farmer’s market and help support your local farms.