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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I'm like your friends in Utah , with a few shelves of store bought stuff.  I 
am going to Mesa, soon though.  I've already talked to that guy, once.  I'm a 
little confused, though.  

I thought you just bought bigs cans of stuff from them.  You actually have to 
'can' some of the items yourself, other than basics you can order that are 
already canned.  Once I do this, later on this year, I'll report back to how 
easy or not easy................bobford


--- On Mon, 10/13/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

> From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Apple harvest
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, October 13, 2008, 3:57 PM
> I really have no idea how much that compares to what others
> can.   I 
> know that my mother, when us kids were all still at home,
> would can 
> anywhere between 1500 to 2500 quarts of "stuff"
> per season, not to 
> mention the dehydrated stuff (my dad built her a Dehydrator
> that would 
> hold 15 3'x3' trays).   We had what I would call a
> Huge garden, but I 
> have seen bigger ones.   My dad was doing what I have seen
> called 
> "square foot" gardening long before I'd ever
> heard of it.
> 
> I remember mom having 2 copper boilers, the oblong ones,
> going on our 
> stove at the same time, pretty much 24/7.
> 
> 'Course, my mom has probably worked herself to death.  
> She is 65, and 
> looks like she's 80..., an old 80.   I'll be very
> surprised if she sees 
> 70.   My folks were visiting a sister to the north of us,
> so we drove 
> up (through the first snow storm of the season... a 3 hour
> drive that 
> took 6) to see them.   I was actually shocked how peaked
> she looked 
> since last year.
> 
> At any rate, our food "room" took up a full third
> of our basement (we 
> lived in a 4000 sq foot home).  I have been invited into
> storage rooms 
> here in utah, and have learned not to show amusement when
> the people 
> brag at how hard they work, and they have three or four
> shelves of 
> canned goods...
> 
> I have made no effort to keep up with my mother.   No way I
> could.   I 
> am glad, however, that she taught me how.
> 
> So, just curiosity on my part.   How many
> "quarts" do all y'all put up 
> in a typical season?
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 3:35 pm
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Apple harvest
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:11 PM, <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > We just finished canning 85 quarts of applesauce last
> week, and I 
> don't
> > even like applesauce...
> 
> 
> Not even your own homemade? Wow. Geez Ray, is that all?!
> I'm kidding. We
> spent the day making apple sauce and are not yet done but
> we won't end 
> up
> with 85 quarts. My guess is we'll have 18-20 quarts,
> but we still have 2
> bushels to do something else with and half will be pie
> filling and the
> remainder will be dried.
> 
> I put lemon juice in ours and cinnamon. No sugar.
> 
> The deer are so bad that I found half-eaten apples and
> 'crumbs' on our
> mudroom porch deck - they came right up to the the dang
> porch last 
> night and
> ate 1/5 of the huge box of apples we picked yesterday.
> 
> lkvp
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
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