Free garden extras from Michael's deck and raised beds — herbs, greens, tomatoes, and whatever is ripe this week. Come share the abundance.
This is a simple neighborhood-style co-op for friends and family. When the garden produces more than one kitchen needs, the extra herbs, salad greens, tomatoes, and seasonal vegetables are free to a good home.
Fresh baby arugula is up in the raised bed. These tender greens have a light peppery bite and are great in salads, sandwiches, wraps, or as a fresh topping for pizza and pasta. Harvest gently by taking a few outer leaves so the plants can keep growing.
Muddle 8–10 mint leaves with 1 oz lime juice and 2 tsp sugar. Add 2 oz white rum, ice, and top with soda water. Stir gently and garnish with mint.
Mocktail: skip the rum and add extra soda water.
Toss potatoes with olive oil, fresh thyme, salt, pepper, and a little garlic. Roast hot until crisp and golden.
Mix softened butter with chopped parsley, chives, thyme, rosemary, or oregano. Use on bread, corn, vegetables, eggs, or grilled food.
Michael does not keep chickens, but he knows local places to get fresh eggs or chickens. This fresh basket shows the kind of local eggs friends and family can ask about.
Beautiful deep red roses are blooming around the garden — lovely to see while picking herbs or checking what is ready.
Likely coleus with burgundy-and-lime leaves, red begonias, yellow/orange marigolds, and low variegated foliage plants around the tree.
These appear to be herbaceous peonies, likely a double magenta cultivar, with big ruffled blooms and glossy compound leaves.
A wild cottontail rabbit stopped by the lawn. Around Massachusetts this is most likely an Eastern cottontail.
These bright trumpet-shaped blooms appear to be red mandevilla, adding a tropical splash by the patio.
Pool season is short here in Massachusetts — call Michael, come by when invited, and enjoy the water while summer is here.
A leafy arbor frames the entrance to the pool area, with summer flowers and greenery making the gate feel welcoming.
Layered hanging baskets bring purple, white, and yellow blooms into the shade near the tree.
A lush mix of basil, parsley, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and cheerful red strawberry blossoms right by the deck rail.
Fragrant herbs packed together for summer meals — perfect for sauces, salads, grilled vegetables, and sharing.
Young tomatoes, leafy greens, lettuces, herbs, and squash-like starts settling into rich soil.
Potted tomatoes are flowering inside the bright red cage — a good sign that summer tomatoes are on the way.
Pretty purple chive flowers and oniony green stems — great for potatoes, eggs, dips, and salads.
Swiss chard, kale-like leaves, lettuce, and brassica greens create a colorful edible patch.
A healthy terracotta pot of mint is ready for tea, lemonade, fruit, mojitos, and summer recipes.
Sweet Berry strawberries are starting to color up in the planter — a small early taste of summer.
Mixed greens and herbs tucked together in a productive raised bed.
Ask what is ready this week and whether there are extras to pick up.
If something is available, bring a small bag or container for the harvest.
Use it in a meal, share a photo, or pass along anything you cannot use.
Email Michael and ask what is ready. It is free for friends and family — just take what you can use.
michael@globaldrum.com