[Ag-eq] Catching Up

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Susan:

I have found very few things that my goats won't eat.  The wether will eat most
anything, but the girls are a bit more picky!

Nella
Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:

> Hi Nella,
>
> A good first canning project would be either simple pickled vegetables or
> fruit jam or preserves.  You don't want to go with straight vegetables such
> as green beans, squash or corn, because their processing time is hours, even
> some up to four hours and that is why you use a pressure cooker.  The
> longest time in a pressure cooker we've ever done is 45 minutes.
>
> My husband will be home tomorrow night and he is already talking about the
> steam canner of his brother's.  Supposedly, on the Walmart on-line store,
> they have a steam canner for about $40.  He's going to check it out and then
> we have a catalog of Amish supplies that also has one, but it is square
> instead of round.  There are several items in that catalog that I have
> marked on my wish list.  They even have a Christmas catalog!  I thought the
> Sears Christmas was bad enough when we were kids, but this one is pretty
> good too.
>
> Doctor's visits have gone pretty good.  I was hoping to be off the
> bloodthinner shots by Friday, but he wants me on them until I come back
> Monday afternoon.  So I have to continue being a bruised pin cushion for a
> bit longer.  LOL
>
> Once Matt's home, we're going to our produce guy and get some pumpkins to
> carve and maybe try canning some pumpkin.  We always give our chickens
> pumpkins and that keeps them happy pecking away for at least a week.  I'd
> like to cut one into strips and try testing Homer's taste buds.  He likes
> carrots and apples, apple peals after we pealed and sliced for the drier,
> bruscel sprouts, honey suckle, pine branches, small sassafras branches and
> sweet gum.  He does not like cedar and we have to keep oak and wild cherry
> away from him.
>
> Well, it is about time for me to get this day started and I have a few more
> e-mails to wade through.  Later!
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>
>
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