{"id":10626,"date":"2024-09-30T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2024-09-30T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:37:22","slug":"were-still-hard-at-work-with-the-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/09\/30\/were-still-hard-at-work-with-the-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re still hard at work with the harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"

And boy, are we glad we did get a good harvest, despite the weather and we are so glad we live way up north. We really feel for folks who were hit with the hurricane! Will has been busy “pounding” dry bean pods in a bucket with his trusty oak baseball bat. He gently pounds the pods, releasing the dry beans. Then he sifts the top empty pods out into a bag. They make great kindling! He pounds again until there is nothing left but dry beans and some chaff. Taking the bucket outside on a windy day, like today, he winnows the beans from one bucket to another, letting the wind blow away the lighter chaff. After a few passes, there is nothing left but clean beans to put away. We’re almost done with all of our varieties of beans now.<\/p>\n

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Will pounding beans. (Don’t look at the mess behind him!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Winnowing the dry beans in a strong wind removes the chaff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After cleaning, we put the labeled beans away safely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, I’m keeping on seeding out tomatoes. I started with 15 crates and am down to one. Whew \u2014 I’m gaining on it! Yesterday I canned up some diced tomatoes without skins. The leftover seeded out tomatoes, I cut the stems and cores out and toss them in the blender with onions and peppers, making either salsa or tomato sauce. I’ve done a whole lot of tomatoes and am about tomatoed out! Son, Bill and his family, are coming up Sunday to get some leftover tomatoes to can up. There are some left in the garden and our friend, Sherri, is going to bring some of her last ones. We have some cold weather coming after Thursday so need to get everything cleaned up.<\/p>\n

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While Will was pounding beans, I was canning up more diced tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And boy, are we glad we did get a good harvest, despite the weather and we are so glad we live way up north. We really feel for folks who were hit with the hurricane! Will has been busy “pounding” dry bean pods in a bucket with his trusty oak baseball bat. He gently pounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10631,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/10631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}