Nightly Rituals

Every night after dinner we take our basket and head outside. We pick strawberries. Then peas. And last night we pulled the first carrots- only 4 that were too close to others....but carrots are always exciting, especially for kids. This year the carrots are extra exciting because we didn't just plant orange ones, we planted rainbow ones too. So you never know which color you are going to pull up.

Tonight's were purple, yellow and white

Once the picking, and playing, is done we head inside to our trusty, but probably not all that accurate scale...One day I'll get a real kitchen scale, but for now we use the boys' scale from our science shelf.

Tonight's harvest: 1.5 lbs of peas, 1.5 lbs of strawberries, and 4 carrots- which was about an ounce.

We have small zucchinis, cucumbers and tomatoes growing, but it will be a few more weeks before we get to bring any inside. I have a few different reasons for weighing- It helps teach the boys measurement of weight, we all can see how much our work in the garden pays off, and I am just plain curious as to how much food we grow. We are also taking part in the Freedom Harvest Challenge. Their goal is to raise 1 million pounds of food in a year.