Tag: vegetables

• Processing… Sweet Corn

  Honestly, I’m not certain when I was old enough to notice my family and our sweet corn freezing process. Only that we have done it all the years we have been farmers. Technically Dad became a farmer when I was 5, but Papaw Freddy was always a farmer at heart. So it would seem forever.…

  Garnetjewel

  September 4, 2025

  American Heritage, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, God’s Timing

  bandage, bleeding, boiling, corn, corn setup, cut, cutting, Family, family farm, food, gardening, ice bath, memories, processing, shucks, sweet corn, task, vegetable, vegetables

• The Reunion, 2025

  Seeing family is good. Sometimes we only see our other branches on this day alone though, sadly. We don’t always have everybody most years and some skip a year every once in a while. It all depends on our schedules I suppose. Or on how long it takes us to get to the Shelter house…

  Garnetjewel

  August 25, 2025

  Family

  count, cuties, family reunion, food, garden, gardening, gardens, park, photos, shelterhouse, taco salads, tomatoes, vegetables

• A Green Bean Surprise

  We had a nice cool walk today for a nice change. Afterwards I ate breakfast, but then Mom and I took a little trip into Linton. When we got back we were surprised to see our neighbor, his dog and a big bucket of freshly taken out of the garden green beans. Even from where…

  Garnetjewel

  July 26, 2024

  Spontaneity At It’s Best

  art, buckets, cut and wash, favors, fields, food, gardening, gardens, good looking, green beans, hands, homesteading, neighbors, Parents, sisters, spray, supply, vegetables

• Salsa

  So as you know I have been indulging in my love of vegetables and canning recently. I didn’t know how much I loved canning. Or that I could have as much fun playing around with ingredients canning as I have with pickles and salsa. Right now we have a lot of green tomatoes. So I…

  Garnetjewel

  August 15, 2023

  American Heritage, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  batches, cannig, chef, colors, green salsa, green tomato, pickles, red tomato, salsa, salse, vegetables

• My Thoughts…

  Since last Thursday I feel like a scatter brain. I was able to plan and organize my series and have them straddle each other. All of a sudden I have this one big problem and then vegetables to be canned. Today we canned another dozen jars of pickles. Unfortunately, we lost one jar to a…

  Garnetjewel

  July 25, 2023

  Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  300th, article, batch, cucumbers, Family, garlic, my thoughts, pickles, taste-tested, thank you, time, vegetables