Time for my yearly recap of what I canned in 2024. The above picture is pear juice. Isn’t it a beautiful color? Not what you would expect huh? Ok let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Jam Totals This is a mixture of 8 ounce and 4 ounce jars with a bit of pint jars.… Continue reading 2024 Canning Totals
Category: Canning
Have you Heard About a Pantry Challenge?
Learn about what a pantry challenge is, the “rules” and how to. I first learned about pantry challenges a couple of years ago from Three Rivers Homestead whom I follow on Instagram. She is a stay at home mother of 8 children who carefully inventories her food and gets the most bang for her buck. She also… Continue reading Have you Heard About a Pantry Challenge?
Canning and Freeze Dried Totals for 2023
Read below to see what we canned and freeze dried this year. Our total freeze drying projects this year was 35. This was 11 less than we did last year. We did not do any prepared foods this year. We definitely need to make an adjustment and do more of those for next year. Here… Continue reading Canning and Freeze Dried Totals for 2023
The Bounty
Just finished getting 21 pounds of apples ready for apple butter. Sure is a long process having to put all those cooked apples through a food mill. Good work out for the arms. We picked about 60 pounds of apples yesterday. Keith hoisted me up in the bucket of his tractor. When we picked those,… Continue reading The Bounty
Green Tomatoes Anyone?
We’ve got 19 pounds of green tomatoes left over. Just got a batch of piccalili going and can’t fit anything more in the pot. Anybody want some green tomatoes? They are kind of small though. $12.00 for the entire lot of them. You just need to come get them by Sunday or Monday before they… Continue reading Green Tomatoes Anyone?
I’m Bad
I’m bad. I just typed a huge long post and lost it! Now it’s double bad as it’s been over a year and I haven’t blogged. The gardens were great earlier this year. Nicely weeded – they looked like they belonged in a magazine. So why didn’t I take pictures? Beats me. We have been… Continue reading I’m Bad
