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Posted at 5:52 PM on April 2, 2008 by Vera Schabicki (3 Comments)

It occured to me that next autumn and winter are when the real local eating challenges are going to be apparent......no lame excuses like we can use now (starting in the middle of winter!).
There are rather limited resources for local eating here in the winter, this seems to indicate that I am going to have to learn to "put food by"......yikes!!! So, to do my share to stimulate the economy and prepare for the farmers market season ahead I went and bought a large chest freezer, now I just have to be ready to pounce upon farmers market bargains and learn what to do to store them for future use.......hmmmm........this all sounds like an intense time commitment. I wish I could get one of my organised friends to get on this band wagon with me to help plan all this and maybe even have one of those nifty looking canning groups.....

Best wishes, Vera

Comments (3)

Vera,

It is work but not really as time consuming as you might think. For example, for tomatoes I usually end up spending about 1 day canning. Then I have enough canned tomatoes to last for the winter and thru to next tomato season. Not bad really when you think about it. Part of the process is figuring out how much you will need. I can about 24 qt. jars of tomatoes for my hubby and I. Then use them in spaghetti sauce,goulloss (sp?),chili etc... Tomatoes are a biggy for us, the most time consuming I think. We also can venison which is fabulous, though it looks horrid in the jar!
Good luck, Lisa

Posted by Lisa Brown | April 3, 2008 5:24 AM

Wish we lived closer. My daughter-in-law and son were my preserving buddies when they were first married and eager to learn, but now they're in OK -- they call for advice. Anyway, of all the how-to resources I've used, the Farm Journal Canning and Freezing Cookbook and Putting Food By (Rodale publications) were the ones I used year after year. (Amazon should have inexpensive copies.) PFB has lots of other good info -- how to choose and store onions and root veggies for winter, drying, etc. It all works.

Posted by Cher | April 3, 2008 10:57 AM

Dear Lisa and Cher,

Thank you both for the encouragement and advice, I will probably be be calling upon you for advice....my husband got me that Putting Food By book a couple of years ago for christmas......I wonder what he meant by that.

24 times 7 is 168.

Cher, don't you wanna move to Mississippi...Its real nice here...:).

Best regards, Vera

Posted by vera schabicki | April 6, 2008 11:17 PM