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With Harvest Comes Canning- and More

10/10/2017

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We are so grateful to be able to share fresh organically raised heirloom produce with our customers. It is truly a blessing. In doing so we pray that more people will learn about the importance of "clean" food, going non-GMO, and knowing where your food comes from. But it all began to provide our family with all that aforementioned good food, so we would know exactly what we are eating and what went into it. So our children can learn how to raise their own food and the difference between homegrown heirloom produce and commercially raised GMO counterfeit food. So far it looks like we have succeed (thank you LORD). Our kids love gardening and eating the vegetables. Heck, they don't even bother washing the dirt off. A few swipes of the hand is sufficient enough for them. Oh, it's great! 

So with this comes canning, drying, freezing and fermenting. That is a lot of work but once again my kids love being a part of it and that helps tremendously. It takes a lot of food to feed this big ol' family!

Fall harvest, ripening tomatoes inside, harvesting tomatoes, harvesting peppers, harvesting onions, canning, drying food, drying peppers, drying tomatoes, fermenting, Rolling Hillls Farm ND, Rolling Hills Farm CSA
Fall harvest, ripening tomatoes inside, harvesting tomatoes, harvesting peppers, harvesting onions, canning, drying food, drying peppers, drying tomatoes, fermenting, Rolling Hillls Farm ND, Rolling Hills Farm CSA
The sweet peppers did not do the greatest this year but we had an explosion of hot pepper. My daughter just reminded me how I had said that I wanted a lot of hot peppers because we are about out of our red pepper flakes from the previous year. Oh I got it. We have over a gallon of ground red peppers. I think I will concentrate on sweet peppers next year!
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After we get 150 plus quarts of purred tomatoes canned we start canning salsa, wings sauce, tomato paste, ketchup, or what ever new thing we find. We are always looking for new recipes. This year my daughter has really taken a liking to canning and has done all the tomatoes so far.
canning beans, Fall harvest, ripening tomatoes inside, harvesting tomatoes, harvesting peppers, harvesting onions, canning, drying food, drying peppers, drying tomatoes, fermenting, Rolling Hillls Farm ND, Rolling Hills Farm CSA, canning wild plums

Fall harvest, ripening tomatoes inside, harvesting tomatoes, harvesting peppers, harvesting onions, canning, drying food, drying peppers, drying tomatoes, fermenting, Rolling Hillls Farm ND, Rolling Hills Farm CSA, canning wild plums, making preserves
Fall harvest, ripening tomatoes inside, harvesting tomatoes, harvesting peppers, harvesting onions, canning, drying food, drying peppers, drying tomatoes, fermenting, Rolling Hillls Farm ND, Rolling Hills Farm CSA, canning heirloom tomatoes
In addition to all the tomatoes we can beans, carrots, peppers and fruit. Also blanch and freeze greens, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. The kids picked about 6 gallons of wild plums and made plum preserves. They also picked bull-berries. They are cleaned and stored in the freezer so we can can them when all the other canning settles down. They are very good at identifying edible fruit and plants in the wild and it is one of their favorite pastimes. There was a time when almost everyone could do such a thing. I'm so grateful my children are learning those skills.

Theonions and garlic have already been taken care of and are put away neatly on the shelves. However we still have to harvest the potatoes and carrots and beets. These can be harvested last because the frost isn't going to hurt the root. They store so well in the ground- at least until the ground freezes so we hold off on them while we get the other canning done.

This year we have started fermenting. OH. MY. GOSH. It is SO easy. Just cut up your choice of veggie, put it in a jar, cover it with filtered water and salt if you'd like, put the lid on a wait a week. And that is it! Now you have a jar of super healthy, probiotic filled veggies. One more skill that was almost lost. Fermenting food was an everyday thing for our ancestors. These probiotics are so good for a healthy gut and good digestion. But that is for another post.

So now you see why there was no September newsletter. But I know that you are the understanding type. Thank you and may you have a blessed fall!

Happy, healthy, clean living,

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