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A busy canning week!

07:47, 2006-Aug-18 .. 1 comments .. Link

Well, this week, canning season has officially begun! Last year, I really upped the anty and canned more than I ever had before, and this year, well, I'm only halfway done and I'm already out of jars! This week I did peaches, tomatoes, beans, pickles and I froze corn. I would still like to do more beans, tomatoes and corn. The tomatoes I made into sauce, and also just stewed. I would like to do more sauce, salsa, and spaghetti sauce. Coming up are pears, raspberries and apples. I have also done a few batche of Lisa Vitello's zucchini relish with all the zucchini coming out of my garden. It is wonderful! Thanks for that Lisa! (I got the recipe off the Front Porch when it was posted awhile back.) It is such a satisfying feeling to be putting up all our own food. I took my boys out to pick beans with me early on morning, and it was just a joy to be picking together! I have found a great u-pick place where I can supplement with what I'm limited to grow in my backyard garden. Although the beans weren't the "best", it was still fun to pick them and come home to can. I would still love to have a little piece of earth out in the country..... but since I'm planted here in the "burbs", I am still going to "homestead" to the extent that I can. My latest issue of Countryside magazine came this week as well. It is a wonderful magazine for those of you who aren't familiar with it. One of the article is the first in a four part series a about "achieving food independence", meaning independence from the supermarket. While reading it, I realized that our family has really become quite independant from the supermarket, moreso that I had thought! The more I learn about real nutrition and what has happened to our processed, industrialized food supply, the more dismayed I am. I see friends/neighbors feeding their kids so much junk, and it just makes me ill. There is no way to explain it all to them, and they usually aren't a willing audience.....It is no wonder we are so sick as a people.
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03:24, 2006-Aug-22 .. Posted by toraanne
enjoyed reading your blog! I also got my Countryside---I love that mag!! It really helps pump me up and get me going again.

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