Last Monday, we finally got around to digging the beets. Next year we need to maintain some closer follow up on them, and get them out of the ground no more than 60 days after they go in. Some of them were quite overgrown and they had a sharper, stronger flavor than I am used to. But we got them in the freezer nonetheless.
Cool, wet, drizzly day. Getting to the end of the farming season.Apparently, we have a problem with voles.The size and quality of the beets was extremely inconsistent.Uncle Adam, hard at work doing school.YummyLife is better with a Power ToolsIt’s a fairly simple process to blanch, vacuum, pack, and freeze. It just takes time if you only have one person doing all the steps and sequence, rather than several doing them simultaneously.When Evelyn finished her school, she decided to run out to the garden and dig up some of her carrots.Is this for Winnie?11 quarts of beets and 1 quart of carrots, ready to go in the freezer. Evie is very proud of her carrots, she planted, weeded, harvested, processed, and stored them all by herself. The only part she did not do was actually putting them in the hot water and taking them out by herself, just because she’s not tall enough to reach the stove.
"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought."
From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".
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