We hauled in boxes and crates of tomatoes. Then, yesterday, our friend Sherri came over to help pick the sweet corn. As the birds were starting to get into the Seneca Sunrise we save for seed, not only did we pick the sweet corn I’d planted to eat and can, but also two big patches of Seneca Sunrise too. We picked the North Garden, then drove over to the Wolf Garden and picked there. Thank God, it was a beautiful day. We ended up with several crates of each, plus the back of the golf cart/garden mobile full of sweet corn to can up. I guess I won’t be sleeping any time soon. Ha ha!
Well, today is another beautiful, although cool day, with the high supposed to be 60 F. Not bad for October, though. I’m on the front porch, madly seeding out the tomatoes I’d boxed to seed. Then I’ll be adding more to be roasted and canned up tomorrow. I’m hoping to be able to also get the Victorio tomato strainer going so I can get another roasting pan full of tomato puree to cook down for tomato sauce tomorrow.
This time of the year, especially all that’s going on in the world today, we feel like the ant in the ant and grasshopper fable, rushing, rushing to get ready. But it’s so satisfying to go to the grocery store (with its sky rocketing prices) and think “I don’t need that and that and that!” — Jackie
My husband was at a class at the gym this week, the instructor threw out the question, ” So what is everyone harvesting from their gardens now?”. Dead silence until my husband rattled off what we’re picking, eating and preserving. Still silence until one person said, “Well, you can get all that from the grocery stores, without all hard work and time invested. Gardening is a lot of work “. It amazes us that people truly believe that food from the store is as healthy and nutritious as home grown or that our food supply chain will always work. Hard to understand. So thanks for all you and Will do to help people be more self sufficient and healthy.
Yes, unfortunately, that’s the common thought today. Just buy what you want at the grocery store and not work so hard. It seems nobody wants to work anymore. At a job. At home. Raising their kids. I don’t understand it at all! Unfortunately, one day, there’s going to be a time of reckoning.
Even without tariffs the price of food will increase. It makes me sad to think how much food waste due to lack of labor to pick. What incentive do these farms have to plant for the next growing season?
We’re in the 40s at night (more upper than lower) but we need rain. The almost .5 inch we got the other day hardly scratched the surface but did perk up the strawberry plants.
Dusty – even more so when soybean harvest is happening. A lot of folks here, including our household, have dry scratchy throats.
Be a bit before we have a freeze but we’ve been having a fire in the wood stove at night. That massive red elm is yielding a ton of firewood to add to our supply/reserves.
That firewood is such a wonderful thing. Will brought in more yesterday. There’s a big pile in the woodshed plus a lot already stacked up. It’s been very dry here too. That fire in the wood stove sure feels good in the mornings, doesn’t it?