Today was the day I faced the pressure canner and figured it out. I started with some black beans that I'd soaked and cooked and then finished the day with 9 pints of chicken broth.Yay me!
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Part farm journal, part spiritual journey, Touch the Earth Farm blog chronicles one family's adventure of living with the land.
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Intro:
We are a family of five: myself, my husband and our three children, ages 11, 10 and 9, homesteading on 5.25 acres in the Northwestern Mountain Region of Maryland (zone 6b). Our land is home to many creatures, and our goals are to farm sustainably, to preserve biodiversity by growing heirloom plants and raising rare breeds of livestock and poultry, and to foster native habitats. The kids and I run a small CSA, which keeps us busy learning and playing.
July:
- seed starts for fall √
- continue succession planting √
- transplant seedlings √
- weed market garden √
- sell calf
Post Perusal:
- Ahimsa, or the ethics of meat eating
- Confronting My Own Hypocrisy
- Crude Awakening, or Preparing for Peak Oil
- From Foodie to Farmer
- Please Pass the Bubblewrap
- Food Security Series:
- Part I, pantry
- Part II, freezer
- Part III, growing
- Part IV, seed saving
- Sustainability series:
- Consumption
- Food
- Gasoline
- Electricity
- Waste
- Water
- Low Carbon Diet:
- Dumping on Garbage
- Reducing Hot Water Usage
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To Do 2009:
blurb blogsbuy CSA bags- buy buck
- buy ram
- community outreach
- composting toilet
- continue making more hard cheeses
- fence in yard
financials for 2008- finish basement rooms
- learn to graft fruit trees
- keep better records
- learn to make goat's milk soap
- learn to tan hides
- learn to make tinctures and infusions
- make Navajo spindles
order more beehive equipmentorder seeds- organize saved seeds
- pasture water source
- plan cover crop and garden rotation
plant front medicinal garden- ramp up piglet marketing
- save seeds
- shear sheep √
- start seeds
- upload and order photos
- well pump
Tools for 2009:
aquarain water filter- bike
- candle molds
- canoe
- compost tea bubbler
- dutch oven
- Foxfire series
- garden tools √
- generator
- hand-pump or solar well
kill-a-watt- incubator
- livestock trailer
- mortar and pestle
- Nutrimill grain mill
- sausage stuffer
- soap molds
- tanning tools and guides
Pipedreams:
- 100 acres
- Biodiesel: tractor and farm truck
Cookstove- Jim: work from home flextime
- Solar hot water heater
- Solar panels on south-facing barn
- Strawbale home
- Yurt
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- cats (4)
- cheese (2)
- csa (16)
- dark days challenge (19)
- family cow (9)
- farm to table (37)
- food for thought (48)
- food security (5)
- garden (43)
- giveaways (2)
- goals (29)
- goats (5)
- hubris (2)
- independence days (21)
- kitchen (10)
- library (1)
- livestock (46)
- low carbon diet (2)
- miscellaneous (13)
- one local summer (12)
- ongoing education (8)
- pantry (3)
- pigs (5)
- recipes (12)
- sheep (5)
- sustainability (29)
- to do (4)
- weather (10)
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August
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- Birth Announcement
- Independence Days Weeks 16 & 17
- One Local Summer: Week 12
- Yessir, yessir, three bags full
- Dead Zones
- And the winner is...
- One Local Summer: Week 11
- Independence Days Week 15
- One Local Summer: Week 10
- A Little Bit of Tansy
- Independence Days Week 14
- I did it... twice in one day.
- One Local Summer: Week 9
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August
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10 comments:
Awesome! I just got my pressure canner.
Hey, did you see I gave you an award? You can choose whether you want to accept or not, but find out about it on my blog...
Lisa in MN
Attagirl.
Pocket Farm Liz asked me recently why I pressure canned tomatoes and I forgot to mention the one upside of canning in a pressure canner: less heat in the kitchen than boiling-water bath! Less energy used overall too. A good thing as we eschew A/C.
Ok. You've made me realize I need to get that pressure canner out and use it!
Lisa, thank you so much—I'm honored and a bit humbled by what you said, and I very much appreciate your kind comments.
Lisa and Angie... and Cindy and Christy and all the other folks who were intimidated by pressure canning:
Just do it.
Seriously. El and Gina and all the others are right that it's really not nearly as intimidating as the warnings make it out to be. For me, the whole thing was getting past those *be afraid* warnings, but also it had a lot to do with my own difficulty with transitions. I tend to resist new things at first. lol
El, thanks for the attagirl. I'm just pleased as punch with my chicken stock. No more taking up room in the freezer or having to defrost/ melt it before using it. Wooohooo. That's gotta be a huge energy savings, and I agree that the pressure canner seems to use much fewer resources overall than water bath canning.
I have such a fear of canning, especially of the pressure canner I would have to learn it from someone. Did you teach yourself? I do want to put up pickles and jam. Everything else has been great frozen though this does of course use a lot of energy. Oh! I just saw your post here. you did teach yourself. Man. Well, alright then. I'll think about taking out a canning book from the library.
Congrats! Looks like you did a fine job!
I can't wait to hear more about it. I'm going to have to get a pressure canner and tackle this hurdle soon.
Congrats! It all looks marvelous!
Ok sign me up. Post about how many beans you soaked and how much you put in each pint jar and how much salt if any. How long did you process? Don't answer here, just do a thorough post...please. Yes I am still scared. I am in such awe that you did IT..and twice at that!
Cindy in FL
It looks from the picture like you used a separate burner to do the canning. I guess I'd need to use my propane burner.
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