Posted on July 28, 2024
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What a beautiful sight an empty basket can be! It took me two weeks to get the bushel of peaches processed but it’s done! Thank goodness for that! I ended up with 25 pints of canned peaches and 14 2-cup baggies of frozen peaches.… Continue Reading “EMPTY!”
Posted on July 2, 2023
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Thursday, we received an unexpected e-mail from the bosses: the stores were going to be closed on the 3rd and the 4th! There were lots of hurrahs from everyone. For me, that meant a very welcome 4-day weekend! Saturday morning, I invited a friend… Continue Reading “A SURPRISE FROM WORK”
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 August 11, 2022
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Sorry I’ve not been around. I’ve had a couple of life hiccups the past week. Of all things, a summer cold took me down hard. I’m grateful to be on the mend now. The last food preservation project I did before getting sick was… Continue Reading “HICCUPS”
Category: Food Storage, Preparedness, Self-RelianceTags: #everybitcountschallenge, corn for the chickens, dehydrated zucchini, garden harvest, kabocha pumpkin, Pineapple Zucchini, teaching the next generation to can food, Three Sisters Garden, water bath canning, watermelon for the chickens
Posted on April 11, 2022
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Mandarin oranges are my favorite citrus. When adding fruit to a meal, I reach for a can of mandarin oranges more often than the other canned fruit. When I was raising my girls in Alaska, the best thing at Christmas was being able to… Continue Reading “I DIDN’T KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT”
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