Autumn Pickings

[fishleclair]

My Grandfather bought me a Crab Apple tree 10 years ago when I first bought my house, He said all homes should have a tree in the yard. SO now that I am selling I see it only fit that I take something with me from the tree, I picked the apples and made up 24 jars of jelly, Will try it out tomorrow but for now it looks great and I like the color is has.

[Jack of all Trapping]

Gotta love it. Harvesting from your own land. Thats what its all about. Crab Apple is one of my favorites. I also make blueberry,raspberry, and blackberry from my land. Nice job!!!

[hogkiller]

I had no idea you could make jelly from crab apples fish,,i need to look that up for sure,,maybe all those PIA's i pick up wont be for nothing. Thanks!

[firechief]

I have been busy myself canning. I started with picking blueberries to freeze. I then went on to pick about 70 qts of choke cherries which I made some jelly and syrup and have enough juice frozen for a batch of wine. Now I have picked wild plums, apples, and high bush cranberries. I made jelly out of all 3 and homemade apple butter and plain applesauce for my 9 mo old granddaughter. Made a batch of hot pepper jelly to. Still have salsa to can. Been busy in the kitchen this year. I love to take what nature has to offer. I also have 5 gal of plum wine going too.

[jimo]

We've been canning apples here. Going to try dehydrating some also but that is new for us.

[farmertrappe]

I picked up a pound cake today to enjoy with some strawberries from the freezer, tastes just like spring.

[lighthouse]

Finished picking elderberries last week. We ended up picking just shy of 40 lbs of straight berries. Also picked wild plums earlier this season. Makes some good jelly and syrup out of both of them. Will hopefully get some persimmons before too long, likely will be at least a month still to wait on them though.