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Showing posts with label Food Preservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Preservation. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2014

First attempt at dehydrating herbs

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 We dehydrated a bunch of fruit this week. We tried kiwi, peaches, several types of apples, pears, mango... Basically all of the fruit tha...

Tomato Canning 2014

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We finally got around to canning again for this summer.  First we hit our favorite produce farm and picked well over 100 pounds of tomatoes...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

A little Gardening and a little Canning, or a lot

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Our basil and tomato plants have gone crazy.  The tomato plants are growing all over the garden and in my flower beds, where I didn't pl...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Strawberry Jam 2014

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We didn't manage to get all 35 pounds of strawberries processed because I've been so busy at my two jobs, but we did manage to get ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Apples are done

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It took me a couple weeks, but we finally got all of the apples that we were planning to preserve taken care of. We bought 5 bushels of...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

Sweet Potato Pie

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We've had frost the last two morning and the tops of all of the sweet potato plants had turned black.  I knew I had to harvest the sweet...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Apples and Storage

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I woke up this morning knowing we had to get those apples taken care of.  It turns out that making apple sauce is really easy!  Luckily a n...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Apples coming out of our ears

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Apples are the next thing that I planned to can, and probably the last thing that I would have a chance to can before all of the fresh prod...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Finishing Tomatoes

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It's been a rough week and I rushed home tonight to finish canning the tomatoes.  There were about 50 pounds left.  The boys helped to p...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Family Canning Event

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Yesterday we picked 95 pounds of tomatoes.   Yes.  95.  Ninety-Five.  NINETY... FIVE. It was a busy day so when we got home in ...
Monday, August 19, 2013

I may be a real canner now

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I have been determined to can and have things for this winter so on Sunday we went to a you-pick farm about an hour away.  This farm had th...