| As mid-summer is approaching, you have | | | | Garden vegetables are some of the easiest things |
| probably begun to harvest some of your | | | | to bottle, freeze, dry, etc. Last year I bottled |
| vegetables. This is the absolute BEST part of | | | | whole tomatoes, fresh salsa, and pickles. I froze |
| having your own garden. It is so satisfying to put | | | | peas and beans. I attempted to dry some herbs |
| a meal on the table and know that you actually | | | | but I haven't quite figured that out properly yet. I'll |
| grew the ingredients yourself. I've noticed that | | | | definitely be researching that this year as my dill is |
| the fresh vegetables from my garden tend to | | | | getting out of control! If you are working on |
| taste better than grocery store fare as well. | | | | building any type of food storage program, these |
| Today I want to talk about another GREAT use | | | | home-grown items will be invaluable to you. They |
| of your garden vegetables that a lot of people | | | | are organic, preserved fresh from your garden, |
| don't think about. What do you do if you have a | | | | no mysterious things added to them, they retain |
| monster tomato plant and you have 30-40 | | | | their nutrients better than store-bought items, and |
| tomatoes all ripen at the same time? What about | | | | the best part is they are FREE! How can you beat |
| when you have 10 giant cucumbers sitting in your | | | | that? |
| fridge waiting to be eaten and you can't stomach | | | | So if you end up with an abundance of items you |
| the idea of another cucumber sandwich? Or | | | | can't finish up this season, look into some of |
| flocks of bush beans that you didn't realize should | | | | these ways of preserving your harvest. And |
| have been staggered several weeks apart? I | | | | maybe, just maybe, next year you will find |
| have the solution ... BUILD YOUR FOOD | | | | yourself planting extras of certain items so that |
| STORAGE! | | | | you can have enough to store even more! |