Steemit Photo Challenge #44: Epic Salad
Epic salads are one of the best features of life at the Garden of Eden!
We plant, water, weed, and harvest our very own greens and veggies, and take great joy in nurturing our food every step of the way with fresh air, sunshine, well water, and dank compost! We grow kale, arugula, spinach, lettuces, purslane, mustard, collards, broccoli rabe, radish and beet greens, and a variety of potent, flavorful herbs.
We even eat the "weeds" that pop up along the path and throughout the property! Lamb's quarter and henbit are two particularly healthy and prevalent wildcrafted greens we enjoy. Every single day, we are blessed with as many greens as we care to eat!
Because we love every step of salading so much, we're inspired to make our second entry to the food-themed Steemit Photo Challenge #44 one of our epic creations:
This beauty has fresh greens, juicy tomatoes, sautéed onions and mushrooms, pan-fried eggs, and a fresh cilantro-peanut-lime dressing, and it's so delicious and ALIVE that even the children love it!
The vibrant young children in our ecovillage love helping in the garden, and are quite capable at planting, tending, and harvesting our crops alongside our grown-up gardeners. Since they helped raise our food every step of the way, they are also excited to eat it!
The children truly enjoy and actually choose healthy, high vibe meals over the numerous alternatives we also have available, because they live intimately connected to our food.
We all celebrate our salads every day, so for fun we also want to share a little gallery of more of the incredible specimens we dreamed up and enjoyed together:
We hope we've inspired you to feast on some plants!
Special thanks to @jamtaylor & @berniesanders for hosting the Steemit Photo Challenge each week! It's great fun for building community, and we thank you for the opportunity you provide to share our creations. Also thanks to @gringalicious for serving as the guest judge for the SPC #44!! Thank you all!!
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The picture of the baby with the carrot. Makes me not want to cook just because of the mess. My goodness might take weeks to clean up.
100% food porn
Indeed!!
I come here to learn about the healthy food to be eaten.
We share lots of healthy food, @upiz--it's one of our favorite things to do!
What are those lovely, purple edible flowers in the salad? They look delicious.
Those are pansies, @vegetarianbaker! They really jazz up "standard" dishes:
Oooh I've had them, but they were on top of chocolates :)
Perfect... Thumbs up @gardenofeden
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following you.....plssssss follow back
This might be a little too healthy for me ... Just joking ! Hahahaha the healthier the better .
Bright, fresh, vibrant, LIVING food is beautiful and delicious, and it's awesome that it makes the body feel good too!! We love it ❤
Those salads are wonderful I almost want to become vegetarian ^^. Anyway you are really good to share your love of salads with us. Upvoted !!
We have omnivores and vegetarians at our ecovillage, and everyone enjoys our daily salads! Sometimes our meat eaters will add chicken or salmon to their portions, but often they can be hearty enough to satisfy a meat eater if we include toppings like beans or cooked sweet potatoes. Thanks for your support, @efkabe!
Are you able to grow Pomegranates? I never had any luck with them here in Florida. On 2 attempts the shrubs we transplanted died and a fig tree also that came with them the aecond time.
We have grown pomegranates. Bummer about your fig trees! We are now celebrating our fig harvest: https://steemit.com/gardening/@gardenofeden/celebrating-the-fig-harvest
Beautiful. I like the "little hands". The food looks amazingly good. I really like all the greens and fresh produce. Well done.
Such a sweet touch! Thanks for checking out our post, @tesscooks4u!
following you now. It's my first time seeing such a salad and would want to taste them
Thank you @patrickpeace! Salads can be really wonderful when you get creative with the ingredients. We almost never make the same thing twice!
You are welcome. I can see that you are really committed to your work by the level of creativity you now demonstrate
They look like little cherub fingers reaching for that yummy salad, in the first photo on this delicious post!
Sweet little angel hands 🙏