I’ve been working my way through all the corn I bought at the produce auction last week.  I ended up giving several grocery sacks of corn and zucchini away to several different friends.  I froze more off the cob corn and I gave the pigs a treat by giving them almost the entire last bag to grow [...]

Perfectly imperfect, organic, round zucchini!
My food preserving week continues….There is nothing quite like preserving your food at home.  I love canning!  Today, I have been working on canning up yellow squash, zucchini and tomatoes together.  I’ll use these jars for making squash casserole later in the fall and winter. 
I started with washing and cutting these [...]

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 [...]