Fresh from the Garden

August-September 2010. Toby 20 months.

When harvest time came at our house, I knew Toby would be excited to see what was growing all summer, but I wasn't prepared for how much he would choose to eat raw from the garden.

It started when we were getting corn from a local farm and the owner handed Toby a raw corn cob that they had picked about half an hour earlier. He looked at me with an unsure expression so I took a bite and handed it back. He took a bite and proceeded to suck on it the whole way home.

Then he discovered that if he pulls on these leafy green things that he's been told to not step on all summer, there are in fact carrots on the end, 

and that mom thinks this is pretty cool and makes us wash the dirt off, and then we can just, like, eat outside.

 And beans you don't even have to wash, you just, like, yank them from the vine and eat them.

And did you know that these leafy things taste AWESOME? After being told to not eat leaves for almost two years, this is insanity.

We like: Spearmint, 

 basil, 

and even lemon balm.

 And peppers are basically apples, but within reach.

Silly Chaos, cats don't eat peppers. Go away.

Happy eating!