Hi I'm Tricia an organic gardener. I grow organically... for a healthy and safe food
supply, for a clean and sustainable environment, for an enjoyable and
rewarding experience.
I'm Tricia with Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply and I'm here with our
local garden goddess,
Susan Gouveia. We're at her Garden Goddess farm with her friends.
Susan thanks for inviting us. What can you tell us about your garden goddesses?
Well I started the group in 2010 and it's all about bringing community
together and inspiring men and women in the kitchen and in the garden and in
just overall... healthy living? Yep! I'm here in my friendship garden and these are
plants that have all been given to me by different friends in the Garden Goddess
group and it just have dedicated the garden to them.
One thing I've noticed Susan is the number of unusual plants that you have
on your farm. What is this one?
This is a cardoon and I discovered this one while I was in Italy and it looks
like an artichoke. There's artichokes over there that you can compare it to
but it's got a smaller flower and it's not edible. But what is edible
are these stocks down here that we're blanching so they'll get tender and then
we'll make a nice that cardoon au gratin.
So here's another unusual plant that I just absolutely love it's called the
Nopales Cactus and it's a little prickly but I harvest them and I take off the
spines
and I either sauté them or make salsas out of them and they're delicious they
taste like a green bean.
So this is a pineapple guava tree and what I love about the pineapple guavas
are they fruit in about October, if we're on schedule, and the blossoms are
edible and they have this lovely exotic passion fruit flavor.
So this is my favorite cover crop that I get from Peaceful Valley Farm Supply and
it's the fava bean and it adds nitrogen into the soil and it also produces these
wonderful beans for eating.
This is the gopher snake and they look like rattlers so you want to make sure
that it doesn't have a triangular head or a rattle on it.
So anyways we were just looking closer to this little snake cluster of love
here and it's two gopher snakes mating!
Hi I'm Travis and I just came here back from Ecuador and I've been WWOOFing here
for about three days now
lovely Susan and i'm really enjoying my time here.
I'm Brandon Bump and I just got here as well with Travis in last three days and
it's been great working on the garden checking out the cardoons and everything.
I get to learn.
I love the trees. So I'm ready to get started. Susan you have a lot of activity
going on here in the kitchen.
Tell me about your culinary offerings. Well I'm passionate about food and I
love to share with the community my culinary um teaching and skills and my
things that come from the farm and show people how to grow their own food. and so
I've traveled around the world to a bunch of different countries and studied
with chefs and it's just a gift that I want to give back to the community. We've
been harvested some fresh cabbage leaves and we're going to make little wraps out of those
I have really been into making my own sourdough bread. One of my woofers came
with a starter from Canada. What's in the little bowl?
Well I love to sprout my own salads. So here's my little sprouting station over
here where I sprout mung beans and lentils, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds
alfalfa sprouts and then it's mixed with my garden greens.
Well thank you everybody for this Garden Goddess feast and especially Susan. I
hear that we're going to eat some weeds in one of the dishes here what is it?
Yep. in our umm cabbage wraps down there we have sorrel, mustard and dandelion pesto.
They can find out more about that on the website.
Thank you!
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