Drumroll, please...Harvest Tally 2008

Before you read on, if you haven't read Why We Do What We Do, please do so now. I don't want someone stumbling across this and thinking we also have a bomb shelter or anything like that. Not that there is anything wrong with having a bomb shelter, I guess....

Now that that's out of the way, I wanted to share with you the culmination of all our hard work this spring, summer and fall. A few things are missing: 8 chickens we have yet to harvest, our green bell peppers and our swiss chard. All will be frozen once we have freezer space. And, thanks to some very kind neighbors, we may be borrowing some of their freezer space until we eat our way into some space of our own.

pantry

Here's the list for you detail-oriented folks. Unless noted, we grew it ourselves.
What we've put up this year, in no particular order:

~ 50 bulbs of garlic, braided
14 jars strawberry freezer jam
13 jars strawberry rhubarb jam, canned
11 pints strawberry rhubarb pie filling, canned
7 (4 cup) bags chopped rhubarb, frozen
4 quarts and 8 pints crushed strawberries, frozen
12 quarts peas, frozen
17 (3 cup) bags pitted sour cherries, frozen
3 pints dried pitted sour cherries
11 quarts blueberries, frozen (local farm)
21 (2-3 cup) bags chopped zucchini, frozen

another pantry view

21 quarts green beans, frozen
11 cups and 9 ice cube trays worth of pesto, frozen
8 quarts and 19 pints pickled beets, canned (about half from friend's garden)
8 pints plain beets, pressure canned (from friend's garden)
28 loaves zucchini bread, frozen
16 quarts sweet and sour cucumber salad, canned
26 quarts Basic Tomato sauce, canned
3 quarts and 17 pints Barbara Kingslover's tomato sauce, canned
6 quarts red raspberries, frozen
3 gallon bags red/yellow/orange bell peppers, halved, seeded and frozen (mostly from local farms)
11 jars peach jam, canned
7 pints peach pie filling, canned
25 (2 cup) bags chopped peaches, frozen
28 quarts peaches, canned (all peaches came from a local orchard)
26 pints stewed tomatoes, canned
10 pints corn, frozen
a copious amount of onions, count them for yourself

yet another pantry view

7 pints Barbara Kingsolver's BBQ sauce, canned
7 pints and 3 half-pints BK's sweet and sour sauce, canned
6 pints and 10 half-pints BK's chutney, canned
5 quarts and 27 pints salsa, canned
5 pints catsup, canned
4 pints bruchetta in a jar, canned
18 (3 1/2 cup) jars roasted tomatoes, frozen
30 quarts concord grape juice concentrate, canned
21 pints grape jam, canned
11 grape pie fillings, canned (all concord grapes came from our neighbor)
sweet potatoes (you can count these, too)

our upright freezer

144 quarts red cortland applesauce, frozen (orchard in PA, near my parent's)
7 quarts and 17 pints sliced carrots, pressure canned
15 eating pumpkins
26 butternut squash
23 acorn squash, assorted varieties
13 quarts pears, canned
4 eggplants, sliced, breaded, frozen (from a friend's garden)

our chest freezer

I've written about a lot of these projects. If you are interested in something, go to the very top, left hand corner of this page and do a blog search and it should pull it up for you. If you can't find what you are looking for, post a comment and I'll do my best to answer any questions.

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