It’s summer time and that means it’s time for preserving food for my pantry and freezer with all the good, garden produce available.  I love going to the local produce Amish auction.  It’s an amazing place to find bulk food for great prices in my area! 

The Plow Boy Auction is open from May to October [...]

I don’t know about you, but I hate buying jelly or jam from the grocery store.  Almost all of the grocery store jelly has high fructose corn syrup. 
Our solution is that we make our own jams and jellies for much cheaper and with an incredibly impressive taste. 
Today, we started making peach jam with some of the [...]

We also started tackling the peaches on day two of our food preserving week here.  There is nothing quite like sweet summer peaches!  We’ve eaten a whole lot of fresh peaches over the last month!  I just picked up two more 3/4 bushel boxes of peaches and they are scrumptious! 
These bulk peaches cost me $14 [...]

It was Day 2 of my food preserving week around here at my house!  Here’s the post from day one  in case you missed it.  I’ve been putting up a ton of food in my freezer and pantry from the incredible deals I was able to get at the local Amish produce auction. 
Today it was Zucchini, Corn [...]

Well, I’m finished with my first 50 pound bag of corn from the  produce auction!  I have 4 more bags to go!  I was able to get 5 bags of corn (off the cob), 10 bags of cob corn with each bag containing 9 to 12 servings and we ate 12 ears of fresh corn for supper and lunch.   I was [...]

Despite being very pregnant, I took my 8 children to the Plow Boy Produce auction, a local amish produce auction, to see if we couldn’t find a deal on some bushels of green beans.  Last year, I was able to can a lot of our own home grown green beans but, unfortunately, this year the few green bean [...]

We love fruit!  We eat a lots of fruit and I am always looking for inexpensive ways to bring home good fruit for my family.  I have been ordering fruit seasonally through a natural foods co-op in my area.  I just picked up my summer Georgia Peaches and ohhh yummy, are they wonderful!!!  Perfectly juicy and sweet!
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