Category Archives: Food Storage

Good golly that alot of meat..

Just picked up just over 500 pds of lamb meat and my meat freezer is full at the moment, good thing I am planning on canning at least a hundred plus pds of that meat, I have about 100 pds of … Continue reading

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Do you store in Glass or Plastic..

I used to have alot of plastic tubs that I would move food over into but over the past number of years, I have worked hard to remove these from the house and replace them with pints, quarts and half … Continue reading

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Do you sprout? If so, what did you plant to produce seeds for winter use?

If you sprout in winter and you garden in summer, my question is did you plant a area of your garden to produce seeds for sprouting? and if so, what did you choose to grow? I have been well aware … Continue reading

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Strawberry Jam

I promised Doomer in the winter that I would do up my basic Strawberry Jam recipe come this spring, and here it is.. now I will be posting about some of my different jams that have strawberries in them, I … Continue reading

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Its started already-The dryer’s are full and will be till fall

Its the time of year that we start preserving food for the coming winter, and I am currently drying Stinging Nettle (for my own use, I like the fresh spring nettles for house use), Clover for winter chicken feed, and … Continue reading

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Perserving the spring glut of eggs

Ah Spring, a time of rain, seedlings, hope for the garden and the flush of the first green pasture, and the never ending supply of fresh eggs. I love using those eggs, I enjoy dippy eggs with dill on them, … Continue reading

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Food in the north

Farmgal remains under the weather, so she asked if I (…Dear Husband, of course) would write up a guest post. We agreed that talking about my time up North might be of interest, and I’ll focus it a bit on … Continue reading

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Drying Eggs for future use

So DH brought in 53 eggs the other day, and lets face it no matter how much I love my fresh eggs, when you start getting close to 60 eggs in a single day, you had better start working on … Continue reading

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Being Prepared

I was raised in a family that always had food storage, I thought it was totally normal to have fathers, and uncles that hunted each fall, aunties that all had gardens, and to be sent to the cellar to get … Continue reading

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