Are you getting tired of the canning posts? I hope not because there’s more to come over the next little while. Today, I’m going to share two lessons I learned from this past weekend. Saturday morning, I decided I needed to get out of the house and away from home for a bit, so we drove over to the Collinsville…
A local farmer was selling corn from the back of his truck yesterday, so we stopped to check them out. When I asked how much, the farmer said, “Three dollars a dozen ma’am and there’s a worm guaranteed in every ear. We don’t use any sprays on the corn we grow.” I asked for 6 dozen. Once he’d gotten those…
Well… when you own a pressure canner… (<-affiliate link) canning season runs year round because you’re replenishing your stock of soups, stews and broths. But this is by far the busiest time for canning. Yesterday our son and I went to one of the local farmer’s/flea markets just to see what might be available. We came home with a bushel…