It’s garden time again!  I just love this time of year – even though it keeps me VERY busy.  I feel so productive caring for, harvesting and putting away things from the garden.  Two of the first crops to fill our home this summer have been zucchini and onions.
I haven’t had much experience putting either [...]

I suppose this is what I get for going back on a promise to myself.  After canning well over 200 quarts of veggies and freezing over 30 gallon bags of fruits and veggies, I decided I was done.  Finished.  No More.  I made a promise to myself and let everyone in the house know that I [...]

A sinkful of fresh tomatoes in our house turns into about eleven quarts of diced tomatoes!

And here’s a new recipe I concocted to use up the canned tomatoes.  I had a quart that didn’t seal, plus some corn and peppers that needed to be used.  I didn’t have any ground beef, but I did have some [...]

July’s meeting was less of a nature day and more a celebration of water.  We had a water field day!  Each of the moms brought a water game or two which turned out to be tons of fun.
Let’s see, the kids played a relay carrying containers of water on their heads, a sponge and bucket relay, and competed [...]

Three LONG rows of green beans…..

One busy  pressure canner…..

Here and there over a  little more than a week, and we have over 80 beautiful quarts of beans put away.

And, apparently, we’re still counting.  So, any of my friends who live close by are welcome to come by “Westward’s Freebie Bean Pickin’ Garden”.  Take all you want as long as [...]