I have a friend who lives in northern Illinois. She’s an avid gardener and has a small greenhouse, too.
She keeps track, by the day, of things they eat from their garden year-round. She usually has something to feed her family with, fresh or canned dried or preserved, 300+ days out of a year. Impressive!
I should keep track too, because between hunting and fishing and gardening, you’d think I’d NEVER need to go to a grocery store! ;)
It’s great to have those combined skills between Beau and I, but it’s also great I can buy just about anything I want or need. Is this a great country, or what? :)
Yep. Our corn did t do so good this year, but we found a small family farm that had a small store they kept open during covid lockdowns, with restrictions of course, th a had excellent corn from another farm that they sold on commission. We froze a lot of it, and add it to all our soups. Nothing .ike a great chicken or beef soup on cold winter day with corn that tastes as good as this corn does. Fortunately they had a ton of for good long time. Eve r yone In area was buying it there. Hope they have it again next year. Even after freezing it its still delicious in soups.
We unfortunately don’t hunt or fish anymore, but when we did, life was super good
Keeping track makes it sound fun. I make a mental note but don’t write anything down. I saved and froze tops from our onions to have green onions for cheese ball, so that went well. Still have some left.
When I make salsa next year ... improvements could include better identifying the peppers (NOT so hot!) and weighing ingredients rather than by volume. Maybe getting a scale.