October 2023
Autumn is here with cold nights and beautiful fall colors. Here at One World Center, it is our time to clean up our summer gardens, plant our winter crops in our hoop house, and do loads of seed saving. There is also an abundance of apples, pears, potatoes, and green tomatoes to harvest. Our tomatoes have slowed down, but there are still a lot of green tomatoes that will never get a chance to ripen. Our solution – make pickles and relish. Green tomatoes are a wonderful substitute for cucumbers.
This week we will be making spicy green tomato relish, bread and butter green tomato pickles, and green tomato dill pickles. We are using the Ball Brothers canning recipes, just swapping out green tomatoes for the cucumbers.
We have a seed contract again this season so we are saving large quantities of echinacea, gaillardia, and heliopsis seeds for a Michigan-based seed company Nature & Nurture. We truly enjoyed growing hundreds of these beautiful flowers all season and now is the time to grab the dried seed heads before the birds eat them all. We are also saving sunflower seeds for ourselves to grow sunflower sprouts this winter. So tasty and so easy to grow.
Time to go back outside to enjoy the brilliance of our fall colors. Take some time for yourself to enjoy the change in season!