keto garden?
sweetteadrinker2
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I live on a ranch. We have a huge garden each year and produce our own dairy and eggs much of the year. I'm wondering if anyone else does the same, and if so what have you found a keto friendly garden to look like? I'm assuming tomatoes are out... any veggies you've found keto friendly and easy to grow?
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sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I live on a ranch. We have a huge garden each year and produce our own dairy and eggs much of the year. I'm wondering if anyone else does the same, and if so what have you found a keto friendly garden to look like? I'm assuming tomatoes are out... any veggies you've found keto friendly and easy to grow?
We do a huge garden and live on a hobby farm ourselves. Unfortunately those with more sway than me refuse to get a dairy cow, which ive been begging for for years. But we do our own free range eggs and meat chickens, turkeys and ducks. We raise our own hog for butcher every year and my husbands cousin raises our grass fed cow every year, or two as it is supposed to take 2 to grow fully.
This year i am still doing tomatoes and bell peppers (even tho Ive got a nightshade allergy) but that's because our garden is for my family and my inlaws and my husbands aunt and uncle and grandmother. But i do lettuce, brussel sprouts, kale, squash, zucchini, spinach, arugula, green beans, cucumbers, green onions, spaghetti squash and ive tried turnips, radishes and beets but they dont seem to like our soil much. My MIL does eggplant in her container garden, but those are nightshades so I cant eat them.
I also do a lot of herbs, dill for homemade fridge pickles, oregano, basil, thyme, parsley and chives all work quite well for me. Even did stevia one year but the yield wasnt very high per plant so I didnt do that again.0 -
Try begging for a couple dairy goats, I have goats and they're so much easier to deal with than a cow. Boyfriends family has a cow, evil creature.0
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LOL i really REALLY dislike goat milk or cheese. Ive tried, i really have in so many different ways in different flavors but I really dislike it. I like goat meat in gyros and we could get meat goats for cheap from a friend but I dislike goat milk0
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Lol, I was raised with it, makes a huge difference I guess. There are mini-cows too now.0
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Just going to pipe in with an "I'm jealous of your farms" and a "you two are awesome!"0
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We had cows they were wonderful and friendly, we had to get rid of than due to drought. Now we have East Friesian sheep, lots of milk, tastes great in cheese. We grow similar vegetables to Allivan (no turkeys only geese, ducks, chickens, sheep and rabbits).
Before starting this woe we planted many fruit trees, this year we are giving the fruit away and feeding to animals
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We had cows they were wonderful and friendly, we had to get rid of than due to drought. Now we have East Friesian sheep, lots of milk, tastes great in cheese. We grow similar very to Allivan (no turkys only geese, ducks, chickens, sheep and rabbits).
now Ive tried sheeps milk cheese at whole foods market and I liked that.
How are the geese? we do ducks but geese scare me, they can be mean! I got bit in the butt by one at a pond once.0 -
The geese are all show no action. Only got injured once when I was checking on eggs and the goose got me with her wing. I had a nice bruise for a week.0
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Aw drat, I was gonna get geese for guard dog replacements! LOL0
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They do sound an alarm before the dogs. :-)0
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LOL i really REALLY dislike goat milk or cheese. Ive tried, i really have in so many different ways in different flavors but I really dislike it. I like goat meat in gyros and we could get meat goats for cheap from a friend but I dislike goat milk
Blasphemy! Goat milk is manna from the gods! 
I will chime in with my jealousy, because I can't get "farm" animals where I live (there's an actual ordinance against it, though I'm tempted to get a couple goats and declare them guard animals, with the happy side effect of goat milk for soap and drinking
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When I can get things growing, my garden usually contains berries (strawberries go bonkers in my front yard for whatever reason, and my blueberry bush usually ends up fruiting for the critters, but it's hanging in there), tomatoes (don't underestimate them -- cook them down for paste for things like chili), bell peppers, asparagus, potatoes (for hubby), spaghetti squash, and maybe a few other random vegetables. I live in Ohio, the land of clay (thank you, glaciers), so growing things is hard and a bunch of work to get the ground suitable for growing.0 -
Dragonwolf wrote: »LOL i really REALLY dislike goat milk or cheese. Ive tried, i really have in so many different ways in different flavors but I really dislike it. I like goat meat in gyros and we could get meat goats for cheap from a friend but I dislike goat milk Blasphemy! Goat milk is manna from the gods!
I will chime in with my jealousy, because I can't get "farm" animals where I live (there's an actual ordinance against it, though I'm tempted to get a couple goats and declare them guard animals, with the happy side effect of goat milk for soap and drinking ).
When I can get things growing, my garden usually contains berries (strawberries go bonkers in my front yard for whatever reason, and my blueberry bush usually ends up fruiting for the critters, but it's hanging in there), tomatoes (don't underestimate them -- cook them down for paste for things like chili), bell peppers, asparagus, potatoes (for hubby), spaghetti squash, and maybe a few other random vegetables. I live in Ohio, the land of clay (thank you, glaciers), so growing things is hard and a bunch of work to get the ground suitable for growing.
OH I completely forgot about the berry patch! We have strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, gold and red raspberries, concord grapes and green and purple eating grapes, pears, apple trees, and peach trees.
I live in Indiana and its is completely sandy here. We also need to compost to make anything grow but our garden is on its 5th year and doing well. The berries grow like weeds.
And ive tried with goats milk and cheese, i really have. I know its supposed to be good, but besides goats milk feta, i just cant. Tried to hide it in things, have hubby make things and not tell me which cheese he used, etc but I always can taste it.0 -
I live in california's central valley, compost creates plants destined to take over the property. How are the gold raspberries? They have them in local stores (plants) and I've been considering them.0
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sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »I live in california's central valley, compost creates plants destined to take over the property. How are the gold raspberries? They have them in local stores (plants) and I've been considering them.
They are amazing. Id never had them before but took a chance when i saw them at the nursery. Very sweet but light flavor. Great in jams or even just in a compote. Eating stuff straight out the garden or off the vine is a first come first serve in our house, so if you arent picking them, you probably wont be eating them lol
Oh and I love California's Central Valley. I lived in California up until 10 years ago and love the weather there. But I was a kid and I dont remember what my parents planted there.0 -
I think I'll get a couple bushes then! We can grow pretty much anything here, except blueberries, it's just not cold enough.0
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Interesting thread. I have a couple of allotments (I'm in the UK, not sure if you have anything similar in the US?) and this year have completely re-thought what I'm growing so fit in with my new keto diet. I've had to abandon sweetcorn, borlotti beans and pumpkins and now will be embracing more of the green leafy stuff, french beans, leeks etc
We live in a rural area so I'm lucky to be surrounded by smallholders who keep my freezer stocked up with good quality meat, eggs, raw milk, specialist cheeses and the like. Thank goodness for this WOE that lets me continue to enjoy all this amazing food!0 -
Tomatoes don't need to be out: 100g of tomato has 2.7g net carbs, while 100g of broccoli and zucchini have 4g and 2.5g net carbs.
I think tomatoes got a bad rap in keto due to jarred pastes and sauces where they've been cooked down so the sugars are much more concentrated.
Fresh from your garden? Awesome!0 -
kirkor So glad to read this. We were discussing out garden to be this year. We did so well with tomatoes last year. They were so good.0
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I'm glad to hear tomatoes are in, BLT wraps are a summer staple!0
