The frost-free date is fast approaching --- time to take those storage vegetables inside!

Unfortunately, the butternut closet that Mark made me last year quickly filled up with odds and ends over the course of the summer once its original inhabitants had gone into goat and human bellies. I cleaned out two-thirds of the space, but wanted to leave the towels and sheets on the top shelves for safe keeping. So what was I to do with the other 2.5 bushels of sweet potatoes and butternut squash?

For now, the least likely specimens are living under the counter atop the convertible bathtub and under the dining table (not yet in use since we're still dining on the porch). I'm feeding the starchy food sources to Artemesia as fast as I can, both to get weight back on our goat before she's bred and to clear up the floor space before cold temperatures drive us back inside. Despite living amid my goat fodder, I find it hard to complain about four bushels of sweet potatoes and nearly an equal number of butternut squash. The garden certainly did a good job this year when it comes to storage vegetables!

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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