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1. Steph’s Highlight of harvest:
I don't think I can pick out one
individual highlight...the whole experience was a highlight! It was a
great experience meeting the producers and visiting their farms,
homes and families. This gave us the opportunity to share stories
about the seeds, place of origin, planting, weather, care, harvesting
and other miscellaneous events surrounding the plants and animals
that would be nourishing me, my family and friends. I would go to bed
exhausted from gathering wild plants, harvesting from the garden and
preserving the foods that were brought home (it was a satisfying
exhaustion- not a "what did I get my self into"
exhaustion). Many of us would get together and process our food all
at one time. We had a "tomato fest" in which we canned
spaghetti sauce, stewed tomatoes and salsa for 18 hours. It was a lot
of hard work that paid off with a winter supply of food, laughs and
memories for four families. There is a great satisfaction to sit down
to a meal knowing exactly were my food came from.
2. Typical meals:
My meals haven't changed much from past
winters. We have soups with greens that were dehydrated, garlic,
onions, meat, potatoes, squash, wild rice, hominy, frozen
vegetables and fruits, eggs, milk, pancakes, barley, oats, whole
wheat for breads, unbleached flour for cakes and cookies etc. What
has changed is that I don't have to go to the grocery store
anymore. About the only thing I purchase on a regular
basis is milk and eggs. It takes less time to prepare a meal because
I have already done the prep work when I preserved the foods. I have
extra money and a lot less stress.
3. How is my pantry holding up?
My pantry is in great shape! We just did an inventory since we are coming up on the six month of the LFC. I believe we have food enough to last us until July or August! I had been hording certain foods like crazy. Now we are gorging ourselves! ( Believe me, we have not gone hungry at all, even with the hording! :)