I've been wanting to get our garden prepared since, well, since last spring, but I've been talking about it as part of One Small Change since August. Finally, last weekend I staked it out. Hubba decided he didn't like it and selected a different location.
I staked it out again and Hubba agreed.
This new location has no underground wires so we can start digging at any time.
Now on to official business: my One Small Change for October was to continue to can and freeze produce.
I added more apple butter and an awesome chunky apple sauce to my September stash. I have one more sack of apples to process and potentially a few more apples on the tree. I haven't checked them out since the freeze earlier this week.
I also acquired a food dehydrator. I'm thinking about drying some of the apples I have left along with making beef jerky.
Learning to can and freeze produce over the last two months has been really fun and satisfying. I feel I can handle most anything that comes my way next year.
For November, I plan to clean my ovens. Blech.
I also acquired a food dehydrator. I'm thinking about drying some of the apples I have left along with making beef jerky.
Learning to can and freeze produce over the last two months has been really fun and satisfying. I feel I can handle most anything that comes my way next year.
For November, I plan to clean my ovens. Blech.
Soon after I started participating in One Small Change, another changer wrote this post about her experience with home-made cleansers... I really need to clean out my ovens, and I like the idea of home-made cleansers. I hope it goes well.
Cleaning my oven is something I rarely ever do. I would love to hear how it goes!
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p.s. I am going to link to this blog post over at one small change today :)
When I had a self-cleaning oven, "I" did it about once a month, now that we don't have a self-cleaner, I haven't done it at all... so it really needs to be cleaned.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the link
I'm jealous of your apple sauce! I was aiming for that with our apples this year, but for some reason I ended up having to pick DH up from work that day so they were in the crockpot about 2-2.5 hours longer than intended and it became much more like a chunky apple butter. Still good, but I love a warm bowl of chunky applesauce with a scoop of vanilla ice cream :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to your report on the oven cleaning. Last week I scrubbed the bathroom with baking soda and a couple drops of rosemary essential oil. It worked pretty well and I'm sure would have been fine if it hadn't been so long since the last time I had scrubbed it :-}