For the last couple years, we've begun canning vegetables just like my mom and her mom used to do.
Built a small footprint, vertical garden to reduce water consumption and visited a few local farmer's markets around to supplement what the "farm". The summer sun was brutal, but we kept it going and still harvesting tomatoes. Its pretty neat to see my grand daughter walk up to the vine, pluck a cherry tomato and pop it in her mouth.
I'm very interested in the rainwater collection rig in the other thread.
But we were able to harvest a decent crop ...
The wife is a savvy shopper and picked up most of the jars at Big Lots, many time at $0.50/jar.
Neighbor has a pear tree and we put up 11 qts of pear sauce. the grand baby loves it.
We spent a couple days shelling black-eyed peas and 30 pints.
Lots of tomatoes, carrots, jellies and jams.
She found a recipe for beef stew and chili ...
Built a small footprint, vertical garden to reduce water consumption and visited a few local farmer's markets around to supplement what the "farm". The summer sun was brutal, but we kept it going and still harvesting tomatoes. Its pretty neat to see my grand daughter walk up to the vine, pluck a cherry tomato and pop it in her mouth.
I'm very interested in the rainwater collection rig in the other thread.
But we were able to harvest a decent crop ...
The wife is a savvy shopper and picked up most of the jars at Big Lots, many time at $0.50/jar.
Neighbor has a pear tree and we put up 11 qts of pear sauce. the grand baby loves it.
We spent a couple days shelling black-eyed peas and 30 pints.
Lots of tomatoes, carrots, jellies and jams.
She found a recipe for beef stew and chili ...