Zucchini evolution - 1 week 🥒🔆💦

Each year since I started my green journey I’ve challenged myself to grow something new, and see first hand the resiliency of nature in my local environment.

My raised garden bed is primarily clay - and currently home to a pretty large anthill. I maintain peace with the insects by leaving their corner colony alone, and supplement the clay with store bought soil when I plant initially, but beyond that all I do to the earth is weed and water when needed and wait 👀

Which means I’m VERY excited to have both my new crops for 2023 - garlic and these beautiful zucchini’s, doing well!

My simmer pot this afternoon!

Made with 5 ingredients I had at home, this pot helps to protect, motivate and amplify intention!

It being the darkest day of the year today I also threw together a couple spell jars using a similar variety of herbs and and intentions, along with a clear quartz in one just to boost that good energy even more!

I’m in Southern Ontario where we have 4 very distinct seasons and I’ve never tried to grow my own garlic because it requires too much patience! Getting through the winter and not knowing whether anything will actually sprout? Not really my thing.

BUT this year I decided to take 10 minutes outside and planted 5 large cloves of beautiful Ontario garlic - 4 went directly into the ground and 1 into a 5 gal bucket incase the others get disturbed. I gave them all a good cover of fallen leaves for insulation and protection - fingers crossed the rats living under my back yard don’t just take them as a snack! (But if they do oh well. City living is about positively coexisting with displaced animals of any kind!)

-cucumber (pickles, obvi)

-tomato (ft. garlic)

-onion and garlic

- garlic scapes!

-asparagus

-kohlrabi

-cabbage

Raw honey has tons of incredible, naturally occurring benefits, including anti-viral, fungal and bacterial properties! To really amp it up, I’m starting with a fermented honey garlic 🤩

To start, I used a 4oz jar and 1.5 heads of garlic, then covered it with my raw, local honey! Together, when fermented the mixture will have immune boosting properties, and can be eaten solo when you feel a cold coming on, or added to various recipes! Once I see how this baby batch works out, I’ll move on to a 5lbs bag of fresh Ontario garlic and what I’m sure will end up being at least 1kg of honey! 🐝

(the honey and garlic both still need to drop - the jar isn’t as full as it looks 😅)