This post is just to remind myself what time of year canning really picks up. I was on my feet canning for well over 15 hours, on Sunday alone and there is still so much to do. Grocery bag full of green beans: A box of peaches and nectarines (still looking good from [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fruit Trees’
Welcome to Sunday
Posted in 2011 Garden, Canning, Canning Total 2011, Family, Fruit Trees, Gardens, tagged 2011 Garden, Canning, Canning Total 2011, Fruit Trees, Garden on August 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Apple Picking
Posted in Apple, Fruit Trees, tagged Apples, Fruit Trees on October 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This weekend I was invited to join Jon’s family on their annual apple picking extravaganza. Every year they meet family friends at the Prospect Hill Orchard (the same place we picked nectarines this summer) and have a picnic lunch and then pick apples. I was very excited to pick apples. Even though we have three apple trees, [...]
Cheap ways to eat organic and local
Posted in Eat Local, Fruit Trees, Gardens, Harvest, Vegetables, tagged Canning, Chickens, Eat Local, Farm, freezing, Fruit Trees, Garden, Harvest, Lessons Learned, vegetables on September 1, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This isn’t necessarily a list of grocery store bargaining tips (although it might help lower your grocery bills). The ideas below are more like unconventional ways that you can eat healthy, organic and/or local foods for less. 1. Buy produce in bulk and can. Love the taste of those summer tomatoes, berries, stone fruits, pumpkin, etc? Talk [...]
