So Saturday was our first day of canning. Before we got started we had to put up our chicken eggs for selling and for our own personal use. We get about a dozen a day so they add up quickly:
After putting up eggs we harvested some more veggies. We plan to pickle cucumbers and jalepenos first in our water bath canner.
We put up 8 quarts of pickles and 3 half-pints of pickled jalapenos. Then we
began pressure canning our beans. We haven't harvested most of them yet. They should
be ready in a few days, but we were able to can 2 pints. It gave us a chance to use our pressure canner for the first time.
We planned to can squash but ran out of time. Trying to figure out how this canning process works was really time consuming. We will hopefully get those done tomorrow night. All in all, it feels great to be building up our food storage with veggies we planted, making all the hard work really pay off!
Side note: Two of our hens have decided to set, so we will have lots of baby chicks running around in a few weeks. Can't wait!
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