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Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Suzanne

Suzanne — Sat, 27 May 2023 04:35:06 +0000

Grow the food you can’t easily buy. Like Danube cherries from Jung. These are juice cherries, but I use them for pies and making roasted chicken with rosemary and cherries (leftovers become chicken rosemary cherry crepes, even better). Some years I don’t get a lot of cherries due to a late frost, other years the birds and I have plenty to share and I freeze them in quart bags. Ditto with Magic Manna corn, a soft flour corn that is easy to mill at home. Can’t buy it, great for my relatives who can’t eat gluten, can even make an angel food cake out of it. And tomatoes and zucchinis – I might feel a bit bad that I don’t harvest every one, but so wonderful when making dinner to step outside and grab some! And I never peel apples because most of the nutrients and a lot of the fiber is in the skin, I just cut the pieces, precook on the stove with some brown sugar, and freeze in the right amount to make an apple pie that fits in the pie plate I favor. In the winter I make a crust, defrost the filling, and into the oven it goes.

It’s okay to grow and harvest just the special stuff.

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Cheree

Cheree — Sat, 27 May 2023 01:00:12 +0000

In reply to Lindsey. I agree. Not to mention, I know exactly how my food was grown.

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Blair

Blair — Fri, 26 May 2023 23:22:53 +0000

Also, in the last few months I’ve read both The Dirty Life and Good Husbandry by Kristin Kimball, who farms full-time with her husband in upstate New York, and she not only writes beautifully, she is VERY clear about just how much work it is to grow food for people. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to know more than what you see on Instagram about what growing and raising a lot of food is actually like.

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Blair

Blair — Fri, 26 May 2023 23:14:59 +0000

I would still love to see the return of the This Month on the Homestead series, even if it’s just one post per season with whatever activities or weather you’ve been enjoying that season! Wouldn’t have to be homesteading-focused at all.

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Kate

Kate — Fri, 26 May 2023 23:01:38 +0000

In reply to Kaitlin.

We read The Long Winter at the start of COVID pandemic, and it is really mind blowing. They were close to starvation/freezing, twisting hay to burn and grinding wheat by hand day after day. Now it is a running joke in our house whenever we have some slight first world grocery inconvenience…
“I had to get you vanilla yogurt, the maple was sold out”
“This is just like the long winter”

It’s good to have some perspective about how lucky we are in so many ways!

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Vicki Lyon Prin

Vicki Lyon Prin — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:44:41 +0000

No more canning here. No more hot, steamy, sticky kitchen and cook. Freezing is the best! We grow golden raspberries and they are so easy! (Providing granddaughter doesn’t eat them all 😉 Pick, freeze and bag. Also the same with Triple Crown Blackberries. I’m amazed at how expensive they are in the store. So nice on oatmeal over the winter. We also freeze all of our tomatoes and then cook them down over the winter – sauce for pizza and pasta. It has taken a lot of years but we also grown just what we like and know we’ll eat.

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Christina Ingersoll

Christina Ingersoll — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:57:37 +0000

In reply to Dianne. There are some Saturday mornings around here where you literally see three or four (usually male) homeowners simultaneously mowing their identical lawns. For me, that's a little dystopian, lol.

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Christina Ingersoll

Christina Ingersoll — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:56:08 +0000

In reply to Diana. Nice! I've heard of worse HOAs than ours, but we are planning to move across town where we'll be free from the thumb :)

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Luisa

Luisa — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:48:36 +0000

I am also disappointed when what I’ve grown and harvested doesn’t get eaten or frozen before it goes bad. I have a 20×20 community farm plot and it puts out a ton of produce annually. now I plan on organizing my harvesting to occur the day before the weekly pickups for the food bank. I am planning for all my overages that I don’t want in the freezer to go to the food bank. Wish me luck- timing will undoubtedly mess this up if i have to wait up to a week when it is ready now!

Comment on We’ll Grow All Of Our Food! And Other Misconceptions I Had About Rural Life by Diana

Diana — Fri, 26 May 2023 20:41:08 +0000

In reply to Christina Ingersoll. what a garbage HOA policy, my goodness. Love edimentals though, we do something similar.