Stopped by Mr. Grier's garden while running an errand and came home with three large bags of veggies: two bunches of TALL green (spring) onions; one HUGE bunch of turnips, and a big bunch of white and red Swiss chard. Total cost was $8 for close to 10 pounds (I'm guessing) of produce. (The turnips alone would barely fit in a regular plastic grocery bag and must have weighed 5 pounds by themselves.)
These pictures don't convey the size of these bunches. They are huge! The bunches are leaning up against the tall LaLanne juicer which you can't even see:
These green onions are leaning up against the Green Power juicer which gives you an idea of their size. I have never seen onions this large and robust anywhere:
Close-up of the chard -- I've seen chard this tall before, but rarely this "thick." The leaves are heavier than most I see in the stores:
And the turnips. I don't usually buy these in the store, but I'm looking forward to sautéing the roots and steaming the greens:
These berries did not come from Grier's garden, of course -- but I'm going to mention them here as an "Attaboy" to Costco. Both of these bags of ORGANIC berries (one is all blueberries, the other is mixed blue/black/raspberries) weigh three pounds and cost in the $10 range. Compare that per-pound price to buying organic berries in the small containers at the store -- usually several dollars for a tiny plastic container of these organic berries. The health benefits of these berries are well-known, so if you have a Costco connection they are worth buying in bulk:
These pictures don't convey the size of these bunches. They are huge! The bunches are leaning up against the tall LaLanne juicer which you can't even see:
These green onions are leaning up against the Green Power juicer which gives you an idea of their size. I have never seen onions this large and robust anywhere:
Close-up of the chard -- I've seen chard this tall before, but rarely this "thick." The leaves are heavier than most I see in the stores:
And the turnips. I don't usually buy these in the store, but I'm looking forward to sautéing the roots and steaming the greens:
These berries did not come from Grier's garden, of course -- but I'm going to mention them here as an "Attaboy" to Costco. Both of these bags of ORGANIC berries (one is all blueberries, the other is mixed blue/black/raspberries) weigh three pounds and cost in the $10 range. Compare that per-pound price to buying organic berries in the small containers at the store -- usually several dollars for a tiny plastic container of these organic berries. The health benefits of these berries are well-known, so if you have a Costco connection they are worth buying in bulk:
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Nice to see Mr. Grier's veggies go from garden to home...nice photos, they look great...enjoy!
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