We harvested our first ears of corn (9!) today in celebration of Oliver’s birthday.  The first ear we ate raw right on the spot.  The kernals were still a little small but tasted sweet and tender.  We also had beet greens, beets, and collard greens from the farm with some smokey potato salad with Applefield’s potatoes.  What a fantastic dinner!

Today’s harvest:  Sweet 100 Tomatoes, French beans, broccoli, soy beans, 2 zucchini, eggplant, 2 beets, 2 carrots, 9 ears corn, collards, cilantro, basil, nasturtium flowers, onion greens

We purposely set aside an section of cilantro that we would allow to go to seed for the purpose of harvesting the seeds for cooking and hopefully sowing next year.  Today, we made our first seed harvest.  Separating the seeds can be a bit of a pain, however, I found that rolling them around in a mesh colander seems to get rid of the plant bits quite nicely.