For three years now we've gone to a pick your own food farm during harvest. These are farms where you pick the vegetables yourself. Typically they give you a certain number of bags of vegetables for a flat price. You get a lot of vegetables that way. It's great for canning. Obviously, it's hard physical labor, but for us it's definitely worth it. You might look into whether they have such a thing close to where you live. We spent $30 for my wife and i and got 4 ryder wagon loads of vegetables, including more expensive stuff like eggplants and peppers.
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Dang, arbi. Too bad you don't live closer. For the past 2 weekends, I've picked green beans at my dad's garden. I've taken a couple of families from church down to the garden so they can pick green beans. Enough for them to can or freeze. Now the corn is coming in. Tomatoes, blackberries, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, zucchini are almost gone.
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Picked myself 5 bushels of peaches at the church farm today, and probably picked that much for welfare. I'll be busy canning this week! The trees were covered and the peaches are beautiful and perfect.
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"There is order in the way the Lord reveals His will to mankind. . .we cannot receive revelation for someone else's stewardship." L. Tom Perry
Canned 52 quarts of peaches yesterday, and in the days before that about a dozen and a half small jars of jam. Going to do some peach pie filling today, I think, and with the rest of the peaches, who knows. I picked way too many.
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"There is order in the way the Lord reveals His will to mankind. . .we cannot receive revelation for someone else's stewardship." L. Tom Perry
Fruit leather is great. It can be done in the oven if you don't have a dehydrator. I once had peach scones. They were delicious. I don't have a recipe for them though.
