Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Wednesday Weigh-In : Week #31

  
We're at 459 Pounds!
    
     This was an incredible week for us, we produced 108 lbs of food from our urban lot!  A new record!  If we could have weeks like this all the time we would blow the urban ton goal out of the water.  Of the 108 lbs, 3.6 lbs were from the 29 eggs our chickens laid.  Ruby, our Cukoo Marans who has been raising 4 baby chicks laid her first egg in several months this week.

     The other 104.4 lbs was produce.  We did not eat all of it this week, so we were able to preserve some of it for the winter.  We are storing the 30 lbs of potatoes.  We blanched and froze around 10 lbs of kale, and we still have 3.5 lbs of tomatoes that we have harvested but not yet eaten.  Here is a recap of the top producers this week:

     30.0 lbs of potatoes
     27.8 lbs of tomatoes
     13.4 lbs of kale
       5.2 lbs of watermelon
       4.3 lbs of celery
       4.0 lbs of cucumbers
       3.4 lbs of zucchini

  
 Only 1541 Pounds To Go 
  

2 comments:

meemsnyc said...

Wow, over 100 pounds! That is so fantastic! I'm curious, How many hens do you have?

Kate n Daniel Vickery said...

With Ruby laying again we have 7 hens laying eggs.