First, we joined a CSA, which stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Basically, you join a local farm and they give you a box of fresh picked vegetables each week all summer long. Our health insurance reimburses us if we do this, so it is actually really cheap compared to buying produce in the store, especially organic produce. We are splitting a full share with another couple that lives close by, so we divide up our box each week. So far we've been getting a lot of greens and salad stuff and green onions..... so. many. green. onions! I've been eating a salad for lunch every day, otherwise we can't finish it all by the time we get our next box.
Week 2: This was a full share that we later split in half with the other couple. Lots of lettuce and green onions. We also got a tomato and pepper plant, which we gave to the other couple, since Abbey would eat them.
Week 4: This is our half of the box. More lettuce, cabbage, snap peas, rhubarb, kale, black berries, and that ball-looking thing in the middle: kohlrabi. What do you do with kohlrabi you ask? I don't know. I was too frightened to do anything with it before it wilted.
A few weeks ago I went strawberry picking with a friend and made strawberry jam. I thought making jam sounded like a domestic skill I'd need one day, so I was in. I always thought jam making involved the whole canning-jar process, which is serious business. The old farm that I grew up on had a small canning house on its property. A whole structure solely devoted to canning things. That's some serious business. I think we mostly used it for storage and one of our cats had kittens in there - which is like Christmas day for any child.
But back to jam making. It isn't actually that hard. Literally sugar and mushed strawberries boiled for a long time.
I have to say, it turned out amazing!
We're already half-way through our big jar. Next year, we'll need to make more!
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