Tag: food preservation
Posted on August 18, 2024
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Every year my employer gives each of us a turkey for Thanksgiving. I tend to put mine in the freezer for later since I go to my daughter’s house for Thanskgiving dinner. Not this year though. It’s taken six decades but, I’ve finally admitted… Continue Reading “IT WAS A TURKEY OF A WEEK”
Category: Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-RelianceTags: a week of food preservation, broth in freezer, canning, cooked turkey, cooked turkey meat in freezer, every bit counts challenge, food preservation, Food Storage, ground turkey, Nesco PPC-9 Smart Pressure Canner, pressure canning, raw turkey, ready-to-eat, shelf-stable, turkey broth, turkey soup
Posted on June 16, 2024
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When I was growing up Alaska, my mom could not grow carrots. Not because the environment was inhospitable, not because of the permafrost (though that could cause short carrots), but because I would not stay out of the carrot patch. I thought there was… Continue Reading “BIGGEST HARVEST EVER”
Category: Food Storage, Self-RelianceTags: carrot harvest, carrot seed germination, carrots, carrots in the freezer, food preservation, Garden, gardening, Little Finger Carrots, Nantes carrots, par-cooked, real food convenience food, vegetables
Posted on June 19, 2023
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We haven’t taken time for a catch-up week for a while so let’s do that. This will give us the opportunity to re-visit the weekly assignments and take care of anything we might have missed. In Week 17 we were to Take Stock of… Continue Reading “TAKE STOCK – CATCH UP”
Category: Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-RelianceTags: a year from now you'll wish you had started today, approaches to food storage, dependence on the internet, expand our skills, food preservation, how to use powdered milk, personal attitude toward food storage, powdered milk, skills, take stock, technology, using technology in homesteading, using technology in self-reliance, what's in your garbage?, will they eat it?
Posted on May 29, 2023
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As the gardening season is ramping up, we need to start now to get ready for the harvest. This week let’s TAKE STOCK of our Food Preservation skills and supplies. If you are ready to expand your self-reliance skills, preserving your own food is… Continue Reading “TAKE STOCK – WEEK 22”
Category: Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-RelianceTags: dehydrating food, fermenting, food preservation, freeze dried food, freeze drying food, freeze food, freezing food, learn by doing, learn new things, pressure canning, skill building, skills, smoking food, water bath canning
Posted on January 21, 2023
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If you’ll remember, I purchased fifty pounds of sweet potatoes back in November. This was a welcome addition to my food supply. Sweet potatoes are versatile. They can be prepared in both sweet and savory dishes. They are often used as a substitute for… Continue Reading “HOW SWEET IT IS”
Posted on October 30, 2022
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As the Fall Season progresses, the outdoor chores slow down. The weather, on the other hand, has been great for working outside. This weekend’s chores revolved around clean-up. We cleaned up the debris and bits and bobs left out from the previous weeks. The… Continue Reading “SLOWER PACE & ADDITIONAL HARVEST”
Category: Self-RelianceTags: apples, applesauce, chicken bedding, cover the garden bed, deep litter method, dust bath, fall chores, fall clean-up, food preservation, harvesting worm castings, let the soil rest, outdoor chores, smother the weeds, tarp the garden bed, worm bin, worm castings
Posted on July 30, 2022
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I’m happy to say I am done with peaches for the year! The final tally is 24 pints canned, 20 pints sliced and vacuum packed, 15 cups dehydrated. I am pleased with the outcome: I have enough peaches preserved to have peaches every week… Continue Reading “DRUM ROLL PLEASE”
Category: Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-RelianceTags: Bounty peaches, canned peaches, Contender peaches, dehydrated peaches, Fire Prince peaches, food preservation, frozen peaches, Peach Week, peaches
Posted on July 29, 2022
by RT
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Each August a challenge is issued to do something every day to add to our food storage. It’s called the #everybitcountschallenge because if you do just a Little Bit Every Day, you will have accomplished a whole lot after 31 days. Your daily effort… Continue Reading “PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITY”
Category: Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-RelianceTags: #everybitcountschallenge, canning food, dehydrate food, farmers markets, food preservation, Food Storage, freeze food, garden harvest, Preparedness, Three Rivers Homestead
Posted on July 2, 2022
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Last weekend our friends at Wilding Acres Farm invited us to pick blueberries. Their bushes were crammed full of ripe and soon to be ripe berries. They’ve been waiting in the refrigerator for me to process them. Today, I wasn’t feeling very work-y so… Continue Reading “BLUEBERRIES”
Category: Food Storage, Self-RelianceTags: Betty Crocker, blueberries, blueberries in the freezer, blueberry muffin recipe, blueberry muffins, food preservation, freezer, frozen blueberries, homemade blueberry muffins, preserving food in the freezer, storing blueberries, Wilding Acres Farm
Posted on May 16, 2022
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I’ve been MIA for a couple weeks but it’s been for good reasons. Two weekends ago, Oscar developed Covid symptoms and was completely wilted. So, he got none of his weekend chores and projects done. Yes, he tested positive. I was feeling puny too… Continue Reading “DID YOU MISS ME?”
Category: Food Storage, Self-RelianceTags: canned ham, canning ham, covid strikes, food preservation, Greenstalk Leaf Planter, Greenstalk Vertical Planter, old friends, peas, rebel canning, strawberries, Timmy's birthday, transplants
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