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No apples, but I made 24 jars of chokecherry jelly, does that count? Most of my canning comes in hunting season, lots of canned deer, antelope, elk, like that.

We (my sister and I) have canned applesauce, salsa, chekecherry jelly and have started 5 batches of wine from wild fruit. I still have lots of tomatoes and probably tomorrow will have to can another batch.
And fwiw, if you have never gone berry picking you are missing some great therapy.

We haven't canned yet, we have to do apples, & pears. But the wife & I took down a 5 wire barbed wire fence and then the wife used the Blazer (the one that doen't have drive or OD) to knock down the poles she could, then pulled out the rest out with a chain. So far about 30 poles (about half is left), a Peacock pen, chicken pen, and a goat pen. At least the P.O. only used them for about 6-8 months, so it's still all grass, and not turned into dirt, now it's all mowed thanks to the wife! (about 3-3 1/2 acres so far.

Buck & Baby thanks us!

Next it to clean around the pond. You can see some of the fence and 5 apple trees, on the left side.

Pat

cider cider everywhere and plenty to drink
in the last 4 days we have pressed well over 400 gallons of apple juice
gathered from all the old apple trees on other peoples old homesteads in our little valley.
word of mouth got the people to call us to gather the apples before the bears tear apart the trees.
My best bud and I pick and mash the apples and the gals either freeze the juice or pasturize it and then bottle.
3 more places to go for more apple this week
our best year we did 1600 gallons with a 500 gal average. No BS.
If I could figure out some way to run our rigs on that stuff we would have it made.
it is a excellent trading commodity

hank

sounds like I'm not the only one. Strawberries were leftovers from a huge container purchased from Costco last week!
I'd love to make both regular cider and hard cider, but don't have a crusher! I wonder if they make a small version? How do they pasturize?(heat it to a boil?)

Originally Posted by stovens

sounds like I'm not the only one. Strawberries were leftovers from a huge container purchased from Costco last week!
I'd love to make both regular cider and hard cider, but don't have a crusher! I wonder if they make a small version? How do they pasturize?(heat it to a boil?)

I know how to do this. You get a big wooden tub and you put your fruit inside then you get into the tub an squash it all up. I saw this on a I Love Lucy Show
Ken

Ken I bet apples would hurt compared to grapes! I'd have to put my hiking boots on!

Keep up the good canning works fellows! This winter when the cold wind begins to blow and the snow begins to fall, I'll know just who to call to get some fresh canned fruit and veggies.



Pat - please tell me you all ain't planning on making that thar pond your swimming hole!!

I don't even think I would want to ice skate on that water.

Good thing you don't live in Maryland. They don't allow their citizens to keep wild deer. In fact just a few months ago, the animal police went to a family's house and took their pet deer and killed them. That shit makes me cross eyed with anger.

Buck & Baby thanks us!

Next it to clean around the pond. You can see some of the fence and 5 apple trees, on the left side.

Pat


HemiTCoupe

I wanted to let you know how much your posting of the deer being so friendly and letting your wife get so close meant to an order of Catholic Sisters. My wife works at a ministry center, and it’s also the Sister’s home.

I sent the picture’s and my wife printed them out to give to give to one of the Sisters that’s always’ talking to my wife about the deer on our property. So if we get a good picture we send it to her. One time I was able to get a picture of a baby Falcon, and she was thrilled with that picture.

Well, she was so fascinated she is taking it around to all of the Sister’s and her friends, and to the nursing home that is on their property also. These sisters range in age from 60’s to 90’s

Again thanks for posting the pictures along with the information of the people in the community caring for them.

Richard

Chokecherry and guava sound pretty exotic. We are moving on to round two of apple preserves and I think maybe a batch of Martzen home brew may be in order. I still have all my home brewing stuff including carboys, kegs(5 gal and 3 gal) and co2 setup. It's al;ways dangerous making the stuff in a keg(with only me and the wife drinking it!) This year I think I'll bottle it. We still have summer tomatoes growing and ripening, which is hard to believe right now, but this summer was cool to start, so everthing got a late start. Last year I has Siberian varieties that would fruit right now, but the summer varieties were long gone!
Any recipes for apple jack would be appreciated too! Now back to the hot rods.