Greens are one of our favorite and most abundant crops, so it feels totally fitting to celebrate them here for the Steemit Color Challenge for Thursday green!
We plant our greens in raised beds made from repurposed monster truck tires, and in the cold fall and winter months we turn it into an easy green house by pulling clear tarps over the beds (we double up the tarps with something dark as well when it gets really cold).
Between our gardens and our wildcrafted food forest, we always have some varieties of leafy greens in season year round! We have kale, spinach, collards, mustard greens, radish and beet greens, lamb's quarter, purslane, many kinds of lettuces, dandelions, bok choy, oxalis, broccoli rabe, arugula, Swiss chard, sweet potato greens, and a variety of herbs as well!
We pick a ginormous basket of greens every day to make super power green juice out of a combination of our plants!
We also LOVE salad and eat one daily! Please enjoy this gallery of a few of our incredible salad creations from our beautiful homegrown greens:
gorgeous mixed greens with red lettuce, oxalis, broccoli rabe flowers, kale, arugula, and curly lettuce
alfalfa sprouts with cherry tomatoes on collard greens
black olives with crispy strips and cranberry jam on mixed greens
grapes with mozzarella, carrots, and radish on swiss chard
mulberries with carrots, walnuts, and queso fresco on mixed greens
Hooray for super nutritious, super delicious, super abundant GREENS!!!
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