Just a quick note about "timing" as it relates to gardening and food preservation.
I firmly believe that each family will prefer things slightly different from another. To blindly follow
the advice of farming books is to become a "slave" to someone else's preferences.
Yes, there can be good advice - but try to be mindful of your uniqueness.
So...that said...here are some "odd" things we love to do!
Many people put their gardens "to bed" in the FALL...
WE are too busy pressing cider and gathering evergreen huckleberries that time of year,
SO...we generally clean up, amend, and prep our beds in WINTER.
Many people do their canning when the fruit is fresh off the vine/tree...
HOWEVER, boiling water and cooking during the hot Summer months seems
like (1) a waste of energy, and (2) is hard to do when you've got an active garden to care for.
SO...we freeze most of our berries and make jam in Winter when we are using the wood
burning cookstove to heat the house anyway. This way, there is ZERO fuel expense added into
the cost of making the jam!
Just some examples...
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