I have signed up for a “canning share” from Grant Family Farms. I plan to dry, freeze and can a lot of food for the winter.
The way it works is you sign up for a share that allows you to pick so many items off the canning-share list. I signed up for the 15-item share. Not all of the items arrive at once, but as you might expect, they will all arrive in a 2-3 month period.
This is what my share should yield me, looking at the 2009 estimates:
- 45 pounds pickling cucumbers with dill (mid-late Aug.)
- 22 pounds green and/or wax beans (early Aug.)
- 150 pounds tomatoes (early Sept.)
- 96 ears sweet corn (late Aug.)
- 20 pounds spinach or other greens (early Aug.)
- 40 pounds broccoli (early-mid Aug.)
- 50 pounds onions (mid-late Sept.)
- 80 pounds of peaches (mid Sept.)
What am I going to do with all of that produce?
- Cucumbers will be made into pickles
- Beans will be frozen
- Greens will be frozen
- Broccoli will be frozen
- Corn will be de-cobbed and frozen
- Tomatoes will be dried, canned, juiced and made into salsa
- Onions will go into salsa, green chili, pizza sauce and sauteed with bell peppers and frozen (we use these for chili in the winter)
- Peaches will be frozen and canned
Stay tuned for updates on the preserving shares. I will write about how preserving each item works out.
CSA Preserving Share 2010-Part 2
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Keep up the good work, I like your writing.
Keep posting stuff like this i really like it
Wow this is a great resource.. I’m enjoying it.. good article
I just found your website through the “Local Harvest” website. It is perfectly helpful!
I just finished watching FOOD Inc, which pushed me over the edge towards looking into CSA. My husband and I already have our own garden in our suburban backyard, and we actually have chicken too. So far, we have not been successful enough to sustain our small 4 person family. We’ll keep trying but meanwhile I’d love to know how to get “shares” from CSA!
Thanks,
Danielle
Danielle-Welcome to the growing community of people who are concerned about where their food comes from and how it is produced. Check out my list of
Colorado Springs area CSAs. This will help you get started, and if you don’t live near any of their drop-off locations, Local Harvest is another good resource, as you probably already know.I also want you to know that I am jealous of your chickens! I wish we could have chickens, but it wouldn’t fit into our life right now, or our yard, for that matter.