This year I want to be more diligent about keeping track of all the other things I keep. I dehydrate a lot of herbs and some veggies. Since I will not be canning fiddleheads this year I will have more room to keep jars of dried veggies on the shelf. We had pretty good luck with all the dried zucchini from last year. We used it in soups and homemade pizza last winter and it held up pretty well. So perhaps, I will branch out with some other veggies that I would normally can.
I also freeze some veggies and fruit. We are still eating some raspberries I picked from our property last year. I used cranberries that we picked from the wild to make chutney this week; freeing up valuable freezer space for the coming strawberry season. We might get a piggy. There may be big changes coming for us soon and we are not sure we can commit to a pig yet but a friend's sow had a litter a little while ago..so ...maybe...
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Big changes? That could be good. Or bad. Better be good. ;)
We're looking for a pig, too, but I think I may have overestimated how much freezer space we have. The eight broilers we took in a couple of weeks ago fill one shelf, we have ten more outside, and I ordered another twelve. I'm pretty sure twenty-six chickens - plus any pork we might find and the beef we still have - won't fit.
What do you think? Time for a bigger freezer ?? :)
Changes? Good stuff, I hope ;).
I can't say much about the changes yet. But if it works out it will be better for our family.
As to the freezer space. It is tough. W borrow ed a freezer from a neighbor last year to keep overflow meat but it jacked the electric bill up there for a couple of months. But I like having the pork around we save a lot of money because we butcher the pig ourselves.
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