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 [...]

Remember the black walnuts we collected to harvest and freeze?  Yeah, well, let’s just say it turned out a bit like the applesauce experience.  What you see below is less that one cup of walnuts, which took at least 45 minutes of my hard labor.

I got lots of great advice on doing applesauce the easier [...]

The green and orange peppers are finally coming on the garden.  Freezing them is such a snap that I can have a whole bucket done in about 15 minutes.  Wash, cut off the tops, take the seeds out, slice, parboil for three minutes, place in ice water, dry and freeze in ziptop bags.  It’s that easy!

We took [...]