My Grow. Cook. Eat. Video Series
This summer Jon and I filmed ten episodes of an online garden to table cooking show for eHow.com. The series is called Grow. Cook. Eat. and each episode focuses on how to grow and cook a single vegetable. The series was so much fun to make! We worked with great video and production teams and we are so excited that we got to make videos about what we love most: cooking from the garden. This first episode stars our hens, Inky, Clyde, Bumble and Boo Boo, and Jon and I demonstrate how to make one of our favorite breakfasts: creamy scrambled eggs with thyme. I’ll be posting a couple episodes each week for the next month or so and I hope you enjoy them.
September 9, 2010
Those eggs looked great, we are just starting to get an abundance of eggs from our chickens now. We have a 3 ft. fence around our garden, but one chicken loves to hop over it and is eating all my new fall brussels sprouts and broccoli! Do your chickens eat your garden? She doesn’t seem to bother any of the big plants, she only loves the seedlings. Quite a sneaky chicken.
September 9th, 2010 at 10:35 pmNice Wilil! I can’t wait to see the rest. I miss my chickens’ eggs, but not their deck droppings… I had one chicken who used to fly the coop all the time, and we just called her the po po chicken because we figured she was policing the area and would alert everyone if harm was to come. (She was the big boss & always went in the coop first, too though). We gave our chicks to a school teacher on Vashon, and she in turn gave some of them to a neighbor down the street- crazy! so Po Po is back on the block watch!
September 10th, 2010 at 7:43 amJayne
.-= Jayne´s last blog ..Meet my New Pig Plows =-.
Love it! I can’t wait to see the rest of the episodes! I am hoping to add chickens to my little urban homestead next year, I really want them but am a little apprehensive. Having fresh eggs would be amazing, though.
September 10th, 2010 at 9:02 am.-= Erica´s last blog ..Color in the Garden- Orange =-.
Great first episode!!!!..I’ll look forward to seeing more.
September 10th, 2010 at 5:55 pmCan’t wait to see more!
September 10th, 2010 at 6:04 pm.-= Charlotte´s last blog ..more peach goodness =-.
Great video! I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the series. We make our scrambled eggs very similar, but usually add a bit of serrano pepper. We will have to try them with thyme.
September 12th, 2010 at 6:53 am.-= Elaine´s last blog ..The Murals of Coit Tower =-.
YUM! I’m definitely going to have to try this one!
All three of my big girls are laying now and I hatched 8 French Marans babies just before the city council passed the new chicken ordinance. Four are roosters and are looking for new homes as we speak… Although I really want to keep one, he’s a blue copper and absolutely gorgeous. Technically I could since he was born before the law went into effect, but I think we’ll see how the neighbors feel about it before I make a decision! I’m going to keep three or four girls so we have enough eggs for baking and for our parents too.
Willi – Are you planning on adding to your flock now that the law allows?
September 13th, 2010 at 11:49 amGreat video Willi! I look forward to the rest. I love my micro planer too, so handy. One of my fave egg dishes is egg cups—it’s so easy. Just use a piece of ham or sliced turkey in the bottom of a muffin tin, add whatever herbs and veggies, crack the egg, sprinkle with some cheese and bake for about 10-12 mins. They pop right out and are so good. Look pretty too.
September 13th, 2010 at 8:48 pm.-= Anne´s last blog ..August Update =-.
So fun! Better than anything on the cooking channel or food network! Love it!!!! I’m sharing this with my kids who are just starting out in this big bad world and dream about homesteading.
September 14th, 2010 at 8:47 am.-= Donata´s last blog ..Mother-in-Law Moment =-.
Juliana–Yes. My chickens wreak havoc in the garden. They only get to come out of their designated area for supervised play time!
Jayne–We used to let our girls free range all the time, but we got tired of all the droppings and garden damage, so now they live in their roomy coop and run most of the time.
Erica–Chickens are a ton of fun, but they are work. Last year I wrote three Chickens 101 posts (you can find them in the chickens category) and I tried to be very honest about their pros and cons.
Sputnik and Charlotte–Thank you! I was very nervous to watch myself on video, so I’m glad you like them.
Elaine–I love the idea of adding in serrano! That would be so good in a breakfast burrito.
Jamie–I am not planning on adding to our flock, we already get more eggs than we can handle and our coop/run is really only built for 4. I think it is nice that you can have more now though. I know a few people who have roosters in the city, so maybe it will work out for you. They are so pretty!
Anne–I’ve made egg cups a few times and what I love about them is they look so fancy but they are so easy!
Donata–You’re too nice! Thanks for sharing the videos with your kids!
September 14th, 2010 at 1:22 pmDo you preserve your own fruit? Have nut trees for your nut butters and cooking/salad oils? I didn’t see a hive that might provide your sugars. I didn’t see a plot big enough to grow enough corn or potatoes for two for a year, and of course we don’t grow our own rice, chick peas, lentils, tomatoes, beets, carrots and so forth. You produce eggs, but who grows the feed? The wheat and olives for the artisan bread?
I’m just an old country bird who gardens, and I thought that thing you said, “we grow most of what we eat” rolled rather glib off the tongue, and I’m suspicious of the claim. I don’t mean to take away from the lovely projects you’re embarking on. I only want you to be accurate on claims, because many a city kid heads off to the country, or gives up a cheap apt. for a place with yard, thinking they’re going to “live off the fat of the land” and then the poor things are tails between legs, at the food bank, or worse.
Don’t want to discourage anyone from giving farming a go – I think even inner city folk would benefit from at least growing herbs on the window sill. Just that folks should know it can take a few to several years, depending on many facets, to establish the kind of garden that will provide us with “most” of what we eat.
Good luck on your worthy path!
September 26th, 2010 at 1:00 pmI gotta agree with Hannah — I love your garden and your blog, but is it really true you grow most of what you eat?
Your backyard is beautiful.
October 7th, 2010 at 5:44 pm.-= Matt Wilson´s last blog ..A new pitz release 112 =-.
Please help! Somehow I found a video of a worm bin that you produced???? and I got sound but no video….left the computer for some reason and now can’t find it. It is not coming up in your DYI section of the blog I found….? I am hoping to provide the Senior Center in Sweet Home with a little sustainable series disguised as a fun and easy DIY garden tips (once a week). The first one I hoped to do was worm bins and seed balls…have lots of permaculture background, both living and teaching but for some reason haven’t come up with a good video….which I will either show given the opportunity at the center, or at least provide them with the URL. I have enjoyed the ones I have seen of yours and thought you must have a good one! I read the script and would very much like to see it! Can you help???
Many thanks for all that you do! JJ in Sweet Home, OR….p.s. my daughter lives in Seattle, so I wanted to send her your videos – she’s a landscape architect and has a little garden of her own plus volunteers all she has time for and works the rest of the time (it seems that way). However I would bet she would like to know about you. Again, thank you and your hubby for the really great productions, web site, blog etc.
April 13th, 2011 at 4:09 pmYou make good videos!
August 4th, 2011 at 3:40 pmCan’t wait to see more videos!
August 4th, 2011 at 3:42 pm