Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[Montegriffo]

Yeah, we haven't left much of anything alive to hunt.

How's your wheat coming on. Harvest is well underway here in Suffolk.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yeah, we haven't left much of anything alive to hunt.

How's your wheat coming on. Harvest is well underway here in Suffolk.

It's coming along slowly. Still very green, though the farmers have mostly harvested theirs already. This years garden is pretty much a bust, it's all overgrown, and I haven't had the time to work on it.

Next year though, I'll have some surplus labor ready to work my field.

[Okeefenokee]

Yeah, we haven't left much of anything alive to hunt.

How's your wheat coming on. Harvest is well underway here in Suffolk.

It's coming along slowly. Still very green, though the farmers have mostly harvested theirs already. This years garden is pretty much a bust, it's all overgrown, and I haven't had the time to work on it.

Next year though, I'll have some surplus labor ready to work my field.

Why libs love illegals, the post.

[SuburbanFarmer]

How's your wheat coming on. Harvest is well underway here in Suffolk.

It's coming along slowly. Still very green, though the farmers have mostly harvested theirs already. This years garden is pretty much a bust, it's all overgrown, and I haven't had the time to work on it.

Next year though, I'll have some surplus labor ready to work my field.

Why libs love illegals, the post.

Nah, homegrown, white, American labor. I just pay room and board, and I can do whatever I want to them.

[Okeefenokee]

It's coming along slowly. Still very green, though the farmers have mostly harvested theirs already. This years garden is pretty much a bust, it's all overgrown, and I haven't had the time to work on it.

Next year though, I'll have some surplus labor ready to work my field.

Why libs love illegals, the post.

Nah, homegrown, white, American labor. I just pay room and board, and I can do whatever I want to them.

There are laws!

[SuburbanFarmer]

Why libs love illegals, the post.

Nah, homegrown, white, American labor. I just pay room and board, and I can do whatever I want to them.

There are laws!

The law stops at my food supply.

[Kazmyr]

Nah, homegrown, white, American labor. I just pay room and board, and I can do whatever I want to them.

There are laws!

The law stops at my food supply.

Hostel Part III: Grumps' Farmhouse

[SuburbanFarmer]

Speaking of which... I had no idea that I could eat this! We have tons of it, and the leaves are delicious.

http://www.eattheweeds.com/purslane-omega-3-fatty-weed/

I'm setting aside a little piece of the garden for purslane now.

[C-Mag]

Wife and I harvested cherries today, 2 weeks earlier than last year.
Production in my one mature small tree and 2 saplings went from 1.5 gallons to 5 gallons.

After pitting we lost approx. 40% volume. Left us 12 quarts of processed cherries. They are pie cherries, so of course we made a couple pies.

Not sure what we will do with the rest.....suggestions?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wife and I harvested cherries today, 2 weeks earlier than last year.
Production in my one mature small tree and 2 saplings went from 1.5 gallons to 5 gallons.

After pitting we lost approx. 40% volume. Left us 12 quarts of processed cherries. They are pie cherries, so of course we made a couple pies.

Not sure what we will do with the rest.....suggestions?

Should be able to make preserves and jam pretty easily. Might even try a syrup for ice cream or pancakes.

Did you pit 5 gallons of cherries by hand? Sounds grueling...