Posts Tagged ‘pickling’

Cilantro and Summer

I love planting things that have many uses.  A good example of this is cilantro.  You can harvest several cuttings from the leaves for the delicious herb we all know and love.  Once it gets hot, it will bolt, and I’ve been using the flowers in bouquets which are beautiful, as well as fragrant.  If not too reminiscent of Mexican food.  I’m also hoping to harvest some of the seed which is known by the common name of coriander.  One plant, that can harvested three times in three different ways.

For me, this is one of the most important parts of farming.  The idea of using what we have in new ways, of trying to be as self-sufficient as possible in a world in which it is so much easier to get something new rather than fix what we already have.  Of course, cilantro is only a very small part of this…. but I think it does follow that same thread of using what we have in creative ways, and it’s fun to surprise people by telling them that there’s cilantro in their bouquets.

On another note, it’s gotten really hot here… summer in full swing.  The peas are pretty much done, so we did a final harvest and decided to try pickling them.  I love pickled green beans, and thought pickled peas might be just as good.  I’ll update on how they turn out.