Food Preservation 2021

 Another interesting year...so few canning lids available anywhere, prices going up so quickly (canned coconut milk went from $1.50/can to $2.39/can in one jump), continued challenges due to COVID (couldn't get a pig from Ibelings because Sorgs wouldn't butcher the fair pigs), and kids eating more and more, along with continued diet changes, mean we are working hard to grow food and put it up, but we are also spending much more than we ever have before.

 

Here is what we put up for 2021:

Canned:

Maple Syrup 6q, 1p of watery, 3q, 5 pints of normal 

Peaches: 7 quarts, 10 pints 

Blueberries:4 pints 

Bing Cherries: 9 pints

Applesauce: 41 quarts

Rhubarb Sauce: 9 pints

Pear Topping: 22 pints

Crabapple Syrup: 1 quart

Peach Almond Syrup: 5 pints

Black Cap Sauce: 6 1/2 pints 

Strawberry Sauce: 6 pints

Grape Juice: 2 quarts

Green/Yellow Beans: 26 quarts,  4 pints

Corn: 85 quarts, 5 pints

Tomato Soup: 11 quarts, 1 pint

Pickled Jalapenos: 1pint

Zucchini Relish:  25 pints, 3 1/2 pints

Garlic Dill Pickles: 26 quarts, 5 pints 

Garlic Scapes: 6 pints

Roasted Corn Salsa:15 pints for us

Roasted Corn Salsa: 10 pints for gifts

Brown Sugar Peach Jam: 3 1/2 pints

AIP Salted Caramel Peach Jam: 6 1/2 pints

AIP Pear Chocolate jam: 9 1/2 pints

Mulberry Jam: 1 pint, 16 1/2 pints

Dried beans: Navy, Pinto, Black, Garbanzo

Baked Beans (from Navy beans)

Frozen:

Pesto: 5 cups

Goosefoot: 2 bags

Swiss Chard: 3 bags 

Kale: 3 bags

Turnips: 2 bags (lots in the fridge)

Turnip Greens: 5 bags

Beets: 12 bags

Shredded Zucchini: 9 bags 

Yellow Squash: 3 bags

Kohlarbi Stems:1 bag

Kohlarbi Leaves: 2 bags

Zucchini Butter: 3 containers

Puffball Mushrooms: 2 big containers, 1 bag of pieces

Oyster Mushrooms:21 bags

Mulberries:5 gallons, 3 quarts

Strawberries, whole: 1 gallon, 6 quarts

Black Caps:1 gallon

Rainer Cherries: 1 gallon

Bing Cherries: 2 gallons 

Our Cherries: 3/4 gallon

Planted about 240 cloves of garlic after harvesting about 231 bulbs.  Bought a beef from Wundrows, bought tons of squash (butternut, acorn and such) from stand by Whitewater Lake beach, got a TON of red peppers from Amanda (CM mom), as well as some long neck zucchini and pie pumpkins.  Raised a TON of chickens all at once and didn't get a pig yet, as freezers are full.  We are set for winter :)