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Storing Fruit

March 20, 2009 By 3 Comments
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You can get some really great deals on regional or local fruit, if you’re willing to buy 20 or 40 pounds at a time. This is what we do, but we have trouble keeping the fruit fresh. I have no extra fridge room, nor a cellar (wouldn’t that be nice), and just keeping the boxes [...]

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Drying Bay Leaves

November 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Jeff’s god-parents visited us last weekend from California. They brought us three branches of bay leaves from their yard. I already made chicken soup with three of them. They are so fragrant. Did you know that bay leaves also repel bugs? You can include them in your buckets/containers of stored foods, or lay them in [...]

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Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes

November 3, 2008 By 1 Comment

Last week I got tomatoes from the same farm where we buy chickens, eggs, and turkeys. They usually don’t sell their tomatoes, but were through putting up their own supply and let me reap the harvest from their still-producing 35 tomato plants. The plants are under a greenhouse cover and still flourising as if it [...]

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Drying & Freezing Fruit

September 15, 2007 By 5 Comments

I will show you some pictures of what I’m drying. My dehydrator has been going non-stop for a week. I only have the 3 trays that came with my American Harvest Snackmaster Dehydrator, which was given to me by a friend. I posted on Craig’s List yesterday that I am looking for more of these [...]

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