Jess doesn’t like me to take pictures of her, so I had to crop her out of this image. (Besides, the picture is out of focus.) The other two beauties in this shot are a Romaine lettuce (left) and Chinese cabbage she brought up from the garden this morning. On the counter behind her is a flowerpot containing eggs from the poultry. (Flowerpots are our egg-conveyance of choice, since there are about a hundred pots on a shelf in the shoop.) Jess holds the produce upside down so as not to get soil on the kitchen floor.

The Romaine will be part of dinner for the next few days. The cabbage she will chop up and cook with other ingredients for her homemade egg rolls, and then freeze those ingredients for future use.

Remember my post of a few months back, when our entire garden was contained in little planters on the window seat? The two plants in this picture could have covered half the seedlings back then. It is a blessing to have a productive garden.