Food Storage & Preservation

25 articles
Dual Purpose: Cold Storage / Grow Room

Dual Purpose: Cold Storage / Grow Room

When we first moved onto the property we are caretaking there was an old restaurant fridge (think loud, big, and heavy with sliding glass doors) in the tool shed that was used for fruit storage as the berries and orchard fruit came in during the growing season. It was in no way big enough but it worked well with the…
March 25, 2022
How to Preserve Fresh Herbs in Olive Oil

How to Preserve Fresh Herbs in Olive Oil

Years ago I discovered that one can preserve fresh herbs in olive oil in the freezer and started immediately doing so with my favorite herb, basil. Each year, at the height of the season, when the rich aroma of basil fills my gardens and the Farmers' Markets, I bring as much into my kitchen as I possibly can and put…
June 29, 2019
Garlic Scape Pesto

Garlic Scape Pesto

It's garlic scape season and what better way to celebrate than to make a bit of Garlic Scape Pesto? What the heck is a garlic scape? It's the curly stemmed flower of hard neck garlic that appears a few weeks before harvest time. The stem is cut off of the plant in order to allow it to focus its energy…
June 20, 2019
How to Preserve Strawberries

How to Preserve Strawberries

The abundance of spring often shows it first blaze of glory in the form of perfectly ripe, richly red, amazingly sweet, little strawberry gems. We wait rather impatiently for them as they shift from green to white to red and then eat as many as we can straight off the plant and still warm from the sun. Once we've had…
June 10, 2019

Putting Up

For years I participated in the weekly Harvest Monday link ups (previously hosted by Daphne, but now residing, thankfully, with Dave). I was so proud of every single ear of corn, apple, bush bean and kale leaf. I'd harvest it all, bring it all in, and painstakingly weight it *and document it. An ounce here, a few pounds there. Every single harvest…
September 11, 2017

Citrus Marmalade

I spent a good portion of the weekend making two batches of citrus Marmalade. . . Grapefruit Marmalade and Meyer Lemon Marmalade. . . And I couldn't be happier for it! See, it was quite serendipitous that Angi was offering some of her excess (completely delicious and organic) Meyer Lemons and Grapefruits at the same time I was learning about…
January 17, 2017