Cultivating Organic "Super Foods"

More pictures of my fall veggie super foods garden including Malabar Spinach, Thompson Non-Heading Collards, Russian Red Curled Kale, and Variegated Red Swiss Chard. I've made sure to plant foods that are not only eye catching and delicious, but also deemed to be "super foods". Amongst my favorites are collard greens. I LOVE collard greens and what's more, they're preposterously good for the body. The cherry on top is that my kids LOVE them too. I prepare collard greens by cooking them with a little smoked slab bacon that's been diced and browned along with a cup or so of chicken stock. Fresh picked out of the garden, they're hard to beat. Jason can eat a couple servings and will eat them first before just about anything else that's put on his plate.

To summarize last weekend, we played lots of soccer, two games to be exact. Michael did really well and I was proud of the entire team's effort. Last night I made from scratch, chili verde, black beans, salsa, horchata and flan. Unfortunately I couldn't work any collard greens in to the Mexican menu but I did fire roast a bunch of red peppers, jalapenos and gorgeous heirloom tomatoes from my garden for a super fresh fire roasted salsa. I also took some time out to order a few mini-dwarf fruit trees from my favorite Pacific North West edible peddler Raintree Nursery . Fall is an ideal time to plant perennials and fruit trees. I ordered a Petite Dwarf Negro Fig, Honeycrisp Apple, and Blenheim Apricot. These will stay under 6' tall and since we are in the process of re-doing our front yard, we'll have more than enough space to accommodate them.