Fruits of the garden

[crappieman101]

Just a few of the jars from this week...20 jars of pickles and 12 jars of tomatoes.

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[kycreekboy]

It is that time of year for sure. Nothing better than homegrown.

[horseshoer]

They look good man. I swear at the bottom of it I am a country boy. I find myself in a place where I can buy or get all the food a eating person needs, but I was raised with it, and I like my roots.
You no doubt made yurself and preserved some fine pickles & tomatoes, but more importantly, Honored yur parents/grandparents and have kept alive that which you come from, or if I'm wrong, got yurself there and found yur real roots.
When I say Hubba Hubba or mention Grizzly Adams, it is only meant as a passing joke. But there is a part of me that where I grew up on a farm, trapped, skun pelts, made sausage /butchered, ALL that what a very real rural life has in store- I just absolutely love the time spent snapping peas or beans, canning, pickling. I dont need it as a means of survival, but it sure keeps me in touch with who & what I am. It keeps the legacy of my forefathers alive & well.

[BigSandyRookie]

The other night, I fixed the following for supper: Fresh, sliced tomatoes, fried green tomatoes, fried okra, steamed squash, corn on the cob, and corn bread. Oh, and sliced cucumbers as appetizers. All but the corn bread was grown 150' from the back door! Man, it was good and kinda cool that I hadn't bought any of it! I started to feel like I could be a vegetarian.... as long as I could fry most of the veggies in animal fat ...and eat steak once in a while...and fish....and....:D

[horseshoer]

The other night, I fixed the following for supper: Fresh, sliced tomatoes, fried green tomatoes, fried okra, steamed squash, corn on the cob, and corn bread. Oh, and sliced cucumbers as appetizers. All but the corn bread was grown 150' from the back door! Man, it was good and kinda cool that I hadn't bought any of it! I started to feel like I could be a vegetarian.... as long as I could fry most of the veggies in animal fat ...and eat steak once in a while...and fish....and....:D

Feels right, dont it? just toss a big chunk of steer on top next time and never look back.
That mix sounds good man. we do the same here as veggies are in season.

[Fatman]

If alot of city folk were required to grow their own to live they wouldn't be here. I grow tomatoes like crazy but don't eat the raw ones. I boil em up take the skins off and mangle them to make sauce but the rest of the family eats them raw.

Fatman

[Hanr3]

It's been a great year for crops so far. Today I noticed most of the corn was 7' tall, pretty early in the season for it to be that high. My neighbors have given me zucini, cabbage, and cucumbers in the past week. It works out, I generally plow out there driveways in the winter, they bribe me with vegies.

[georgem]

It's summer time and the living is easy. Nice stuff crappieman101!!!

Heck Shoer, it's a tradition that is 10,000 years old, our great grandparents going back to prehistory would understand! It wasn't until very recently that humans developed the kind of social structure necessary for maintaining a huge food distribution network.

Here at the farm we eat complete meals from food we produce either on site or or capture/collected from the wild on a fairly regular basis. At this point we don't produce meat of any kind, cooking oil, or salt. I think it would be cool to put in a fairly large crop of sunflowers for oil production. We can always rely on fish as an indigenous protein source for self sufficiency meals.

If we were to try moving to complete on site food production it would be a real pain to maintain the morning coffee -- a habit I don't intend to kick until the apocalypse, at which time I have to start work on growing coffee... constructing a rum distillery and a solarium for producing limes.... and avocados.

Damnit, now we are talking about real work.

They look good man. I swear at the bottom of it I am a country boy. I find myself in a place where I can buy or get all the food a eating person needs, but I was raised with it, and I like my roots.
You no doubt made yurself and preserved some fine pickles & tomatoes, but more importantly, Honored yur parents/grandparents and have kept alive that which you come from, or if I'm wrong, got yurself there and found yur real roots.
When I say Hubba Hubba or mention Grizzly Adams, it is only meant as a passing joke. But there is a part of me that where I grew up on a farm, trapped, skun pelts, made sausage /butchered, ALL that what a very real rural life has in store- I just absolutely love the time spent snapping peas or beans, canning, pickling. I dont need it as a means of survival, but it sure keeps me in touch with who & what I am. It keeps the legacy of my forefathers alive & well.

[Crappie Stalker]

I'm on my 3rd homegrown cantaloupe of the season and I have no doubt that it's sweeter cause I gew it myself. Between my wife, my mom-in-law and myself, we've canned 65 quarts of green beans, 32 pints of pickles -dill and bread-n-butter, made pepper sauce, put gallons of tomatoes in the freezer for soup and spaghetti sauce, along with shredded zucchini for bread and this weekend Vonna is making salsa and chow-chow. Between the vegetables and the fish in the freezer, we ought to be able to cut down the grocery bill. Feels good, tastes better.

[crappieman101]

I'll probably have about 50 quarts of picklles and 25-30 pints made by summers end. I give them as gifts...not all.:D

I guess all of the other jars I can find will be full of tomatoes, tomato juice, salsa, and chow-chow...I guess that will be in the hundred range in itself. I go and buy tomatoes for $5 a basket to fill the void that I don't grow. Lots of work ahead.