Eva Carlson's Senior Project: Garden to Garnish

In the second week "Garden to Garnish" a lot happened. Some of the activities included going to the farmer's market, purchasing berries, learning more about the berry growing cycle, and creating yummy little treats with these berries. We had originally thought that strawberries would be ripe this past week, but that turned out to not be the case. After talking to some vendors, we learned that most of them will start to become ready early next week. This slightly altered our plans since we were not able to pick the berries out ourselves, an important part of the project that we were looking forward to. Alas, there were still some berries available for purchase, which made us wonder why we couldn't pick them ourselves if they could sell the ones from the farms, but we came to the conclusion that this was because of the fact that there were not enough for them to open "berry pick season" up to the general public. Pics from the farmers market adventure A sli...

     For my senior project, I am working with Katherine on a project around growing and eating fresh foods. Our goal with this project is to learn more about the growing process with our own small gardens in our back yards as using the foods that we grow in our cooking. Since it is hard to grow a lot of food, and we wanted to be able to do more cooking than our small gardens can produce on a weekly basis, we are also going to visit local farmers markets and farms to buy their products and learn more about there company and foods that they grow. We chose to work on this project because over the past year Katherine and I both have found more time for gardening and cooking. We wanted to be able to learn more about this as well as better our skills in both of these areas. Since it is springtime we found no better opportunity to start now!      We started to think about this project in early March when it began to get sunny again. Katherine had also been experim...