Food Preservation 2020

 I just realized I never posted what we preserved in 2020.  Time to fix that, since we are currently boiling sap for 2021 :)  

This was the year of COVID, a year of food limits, missing items and limited shopping in stores.  Prices were going up, canning lids were no where to be found, it was definitely a different year than I've ever experienced before.  We made some adjustments (raised a lot more chickens) and I was just so grateful that I felt good enough to do a lot of gardening and canning, as it felt very important.

Maple Syrup: 4 quarts, 6 pints

Grape Juice: 4 quarts

Cherries: 4 quarts, 11 pints

Blueberries:11 pints

Apricots:2 quarts

Peaches: 6 quarts, 1 pint 

Mandarin Oranges: 4 pints, 1 half pint 

Pears: 32 quarts, 9 pints

Pear Topping: 10 pints

Pear Nectar: 2 pints

Pear Juice: 8 quarts, 1 pint

Apple Butter: 2 pints, 6 3/4 pints 

Spiced Apples: 3 quarts, 14 pints 

Applesauce: 117 quarts

Rhubarb Sauce: 4 pints

Cranberry Pear Jam (kids): 5 half pints

Cranberry Pear (AIP): 6 half pinnts

Chocolate Pear Jam (AIP): 10 half pints, 1 3/4 pint

Chocolate Pear Jam (kids): 9 half pints, 2 1/4 pints

Pineapple/Pear Jam: 4 1.5 pints, 1 1/2 pint

Garlic Dill pickles: 14 quarts, 1 pint

Zucchini Relish: 11 pints

Dilly Beans: 4 pints

Green Beans: 6 quarts

Corn: 24 quarts, 20 pints

Roasted Corn Salsa: 3 quarts, 13 pints

Tomatoes: 5 quarts

Pasta Sauce: 14 quarts, 1 pint

Sweet & Sour Sauce: 11 pints

Chicken & Beef Stock

Baked Beans

Dried Beans (Navy, Pinto, Black, Garbanzo)

Frozen:

Strawberries: 4 gallons, 11 jars of sliced

Peaches: 1 gallon

Cherries: 1 gallon

Kale: 10 bags

Chard: 4 bags

Oyster Mushrooms: 34 bags!

Garlic Scapes; 6 bags

Green Beans:5 bags

Roasted Green Beans: 2 bags

Beets: 13 containers

Yellow Squash/Zucchini (shredded): 12 bags

Broccoli: 10 bags

Broccoli leaves: 2 bags

Turnips: 3 bags

Fennel Pesto: 6 containers 

Basil Pesto: 32 pints

Zucchini Butter: 3 containers

Vinegars: Apricot, Chive, Cherry

Lard:8 containers

We raised a lot of meat chickens (one batch of 25, one of 50), tapped trees, bought a ton of squash from the stand near Whitewater Lake Beach, bought 40 pounds of ground beef from 5 Arches farm (to supplement the beef from Wundrows last year), bought some lamb from Michelle when she was cleaning out the freezer, and just did our best to put up what we could.  The mushrooms that we found here and at Turners were amazing...so many of them all over their wood pile!  We never were without and had a fairly high grocery bill this year, but it should help contain 2021s costs, especially as we'll need to purchase a bunch of beef again.