Well. I guess I've got two posts I'm working on now outside my semi-daily journal posts. Late post today (2am and just getting started) cause I was working on one that's somewhat of a manifesto.
Today's harvest. Green beans and our first okra!
The okra is growing! They like summer rain a lot, and have started shooting up since last week's rains. Red burgundy is our first producer. I planted these from seed we saved last year. Our first saved seeds.
I saved a lot of green bean seeds today in addition to our harvest for eating. I've taken to leaving a pod or two to get too big every time I go out to harvest. Today I kept a bunch for seed. I also found some beans that were sprouting in the pods! Those were planted because why not? More food, and a second generation of beans grown here! The adaptation can happen even faster that way. I love it.
Goji will be ready to harvest soon. I hope to eat more of it this year than last. I need to develop a taste for it. Last year I was surprised by the taste of my first goji Berry and spat it out. Well there's a new goji bush there now from those seeds.
As I was walking the garden and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, I had the Divine pleasure of eating blackberries. Not from the bush I have usually been snacking from, but from the couple of canes in the forest garden. To my delight they are the absolute best berries I've ever eaten, hands down. I don't know how many canes are up there that I ate from, but I think I planted two there last year when I ordered them from 
While Melissa was out doing something, a chicken hawk decided to visit us. It perched on the dead branch that I planted whenever that was and looked around the yard a while. It was probably inspecting my work. Or looking for squirrels. It was cool showing the kids. It was a big hawk too! Sam of course wanted to shoot it and eat it. Kid thinks like his daddy. I explained of course that we didn't have any reason to shoot the hawk because it was no threat to us and we aren't hurting for food. I didn't mention that that's illegal because I don't think legality of such things matters. There being no need to kill things will always trump some bureaucrat telling me not to do so. Morality and legality are far from the same.
Happy to share our daily abundance! It seems berries are this year's inspiration. I think they were last year's abundance inspiration as well. Maybe there's a theme.
What's a business called that grows berries? Is it still an orchard?
Love from Texas
Nate 💚