Drink your Greens
(posted by Emily) After doing a little reading online this weekend, Rick spent sometime in the garden removing low-hanging leaves from most of our plants. While we don't get a lot of pests, we do get some and any way to combat bugs is worth checking out. After all, eating and farming organic means sharing your food with the bugs--right, Jennie ? :) He pulled off a huge stack of leaves, and we had to figure out what to do with them. Sure, some could be used for salads, but that would only make a small dent in the total harvest. So, he decided we would make some green juice. The leaves filled the big side of our sink as they sat to soak and remove dirt/bugs. Once the greens had sat for a while, we teamed up to rinse everything and juice. Needless to say, we ended up with a lot of green juice :) We used the green juice as a base for some quick smoothies with frozen fruit and ice. We used a combination of bananas, blueberries, mangos, and strawberries. Because o...