what are you harvesting in the middle of winter!?!

In north Idaho here, we got a warm snap and I was just able to pull out 2 pounds of lovely danver half long carrot from our beds.  Oh, I only pulled on about 3sqft, there's about another 30sqft to be pulled when the soil warms up again, (it froze again, it's about 5f).  Now.  I think i'm going to pickle them and I've got some tomatillos kickin around and a few peppers, and some onions,  so it will be a canning jamboree.

But, I'm wondering what you all have to harvest in the middle of winter? Specifically in the north county.  I know down south it's citrus season

... but, way up, in the Great White North Eh. what you got?
...green house or straight out of permafrost?

...oh, and my puppy, 18 moths old now, might have ate a few.  HAHA

From my unheated greenhouse, I'm currently harvesting bok choi, spinach, mallow, and lettuce.

i'd totally trade some carrots for some bok choi right now... mmm kimchi.
you've' got to have a darn good green house for this time of year, they've got some tight temperature regulations to prevent bolting.
cheers

I'm harvesting this for my chickens, but we could eat it too -- chickweed.  We have good stands of this growing in the shade of the black locust trees in our backyard, and except for a few days after the cold spell at Christmas (it got down around ten below here, with only a few inches of snow cover) it has been bright green and growing all winter!  And the chickens love it!  I have eaten it before, years ago, and may bring some in for us one of these days, but we are currently eating mostly carnivore (for health reasons).  The best thing is that this is a self-planting and self-tending crop!  All I ever have to do to it is pick it!

Patrick Rahilly wrote:But, I'm wondering what you all have to harvest in the middle of winter? Specifically in the north county.  I know down south it's citrus season

... but, way up, in the Great White North Eh. what you got?
...green house or straight out of permafrost?

Hey Patrick!

Nothing at all in the ground. It was all dug, processed and stored by the end of September. The packed basement refrigerator and cold room supply all root vegetables, and the quality is just delightful.

At our higher latitude, we have short growing seasons, but in that window we have immensely long growing days in terms of direct sunlight.

The only thing I am harvesting now is wood, in the form of firewood (now that trees have pulled their sap/moisture into their roots) and garden poles of supple and tough saskatoon for supporting everything from pole beans to tomatoes to you-name-it. I'm expanding some trails, so I'll have enough to give to new neighbours who are just getting their feet wet in gardening.

We had a week of below zero temps and unfortunately the kale, and other brassicas that occasionally overwinter and give us some edible greens through the winter succumbed. There's a few beets left in one bed that made it through and I cooked a few up last week.   Otherwise its mostly chickweed here too.