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Got jam?

Hi guys!  I’m looking for a good, simple jam recipe.  I’ve picked and frozen enough berries now to start preserving them.  Anyone have a good berry jam that they make?  I’d prefer no pectin.   Thanks!

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And this beautiful image.  I wish I had a large print of this.  I would hang it up in my house.  (Also I think she kinda looks like me!) Snatched from the ever-inspirational Phelan

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Canning Green Beans

  Here I am finally telling you about my green beans! A few weeks ago, my parents came to visit me from Alabama for my Birthday.  One of my gifts was a pressure canner which was incredibly exciting.  I have a boiling water canner, but I was feeling limited in my options (and I never [...]

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Rainy

We had a very rainy weekend (plus Thursday and Friday).  From the very non-scientific measure on my back porch, which is actually a rubbermaid container that holds any veggie scraps we take to the farm, we got about 5+ inches this weekend.   It never rained terribly hard, but it was constant.  Something about fall rain [...]

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Piles

Have you all been waiting with baited breath to see what 40 pounds of tomatoes looks like? (Umm…yeah, it was 40 not 50 THANK GOD.) Please forgive me for not immediately posting a picture, because you can sure bet that I took one the second that I hobbled into the house under the weight and [...]

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Over my head

I did something potentially stupid, I think.  Well, maybe not stupid but certainly overly ambitious. I’ve been on this quest for tomatoes for a couple of months now.  I wanted tomatoes- a lot- to can.  I checked with the lady that I got my seedlings from.  I checked with the people who run my CSA.  [...]

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Pickles and a Tomato

Last night Pete and I pickled 4 Quarts of Dill Pickles. We pickled three of them as spears and one as rounds. Sadly, we were running very, very low on dill (next year: Grow dill! Do you have any idea how expensive that stuff is in the grocery store? And that here we can’t even [...]

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