The Concept Of EATING Seasonally
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I'm 70 years old, March 1st I plant onions, St Patrick day is potato planting, Good Friday is tomatoes, peppers and squash, May first is peas, melons and sweet potatoes, and the schedule my father gave me goes on, I butcher a hog in December and some chickens every 3 months .. I live in central Georgia swamps and my father figured it out years ago
I look at my trees and berry bushes when I need to seed my spring vegetables. The onions, carrots, and potatoes can weather the cold nights, 20 - 30 F, and warm afternoons. I live in the high desert of Northern Arizona. At times, I see volunteers come up in March.
I grew up in GA. I remember this schedule. I live in TN now and those dates don't actually apply but I am using it with modifications lol
I would love a schedule for my area of SW Missouri. This will be my first partial garden season here and my 3rd growing a garden. One of my challenges is timing of when to plant or start what.
@@JodiMontano I'm just north of you. I've been here for about a year and a half so the weather pattern is different from what I'm used to, so I know better not to plant yet, poor soil so I'm growing mostly in pots this year, figuring out ways to protect my plants on a budget, etc. Starting off with seedlings indoors off grid and not set up for that yet was a challenge. Quitting is not an option.
I am still learning what & when...but I've heard bag planting in the greenhouse will extend your potatoe growing season
I asked my grandmother before she passed in the early 80s what technology changed her life the most growing up and she said her dad saved up money for almost a year and bought a pressure cooker. She said they had good food year around after that.
You made your own power source using panels and inverters or whatever. You are not a failure!
I just have to share because I know you'll appreciate my complete joy... I found 12 Mulberry trees on the back of my property! God sent a blessing... 2 are already setting fruit. They're perfectly spaced apart and 100% native volunteers. I also found a Muscadine vine (I think Scoopernog).
So far I’ve found 10 mulberry trees of various ages on our property too!! SO excited!!!
My generation ate food seasonally, I remember getting excited when tangerines came in the store when I was a young child.
EASY FIX: Plant late potatoes! Potatoes usually take 110 days to mature, so 40/50 days later, plant your late ones. Just before the last frost place them, buckets and all, in your wine cellar. On warm winter days let them out to get some sun.Then in late February or early March dump them out and store them as you normally do. It's worked that way for us for nearly 3 generations.
Are you chitting me 🥔
I don't know you, but you seem like the opposite of lazy. You make a great point about getting used to eating seasonally and not having everything whenever you want it. I've heard arguments made that eating seasonally is better for your health. It's not laziness. It's about prioritizing and conserving time and energy.
I eat seasonally. It seems silly to me now to hear complaints about super high prices for strawberries in January. Eat berries in summer. Eat cucumbers and tomatoes fresh in summer. Preserve the rest with canning, if you like to do that. I grow in zone 6 for three seasons. If you want a stew in January, store your Fall crop of potatoes or carrots in a cool, dark place. But if you want stew in April, pressure can in Fall. Plant them in Spring, and then enjoy them fresh again in summer. Plant again in late summer for a Fall harvest. Rinse and repeat. Don't get me started on complaints about the price of tropical fruit. As if mangoes, bananas or avocados are essential to one's diet.
You are completely on target.👍 I live in the Caribbean and traditionally we don't do a lot of canning and preserving, we simply live seasonally, and that is exactly how I continue to live. Keep up the good work 👍🙏🇰🇾
To be fair, it is a LOT easier to do that there than in many parts of the US. In many areas, you don't have anything growing from November to April or May because of the snow.
I have been sick and in chronic pain for over a decade, my whole adult life, I found the Way of the Lord and now my body is healing in so many ways. Praise Yah!!
Eating seasonally makes it easier to be self-sufficient. My family is basically carnivore during the winter with the few exceptions of storage apples, potatoes and the such. Then the summer looks completely different when we have fresh stuff from the garden. Tis a season for everything and I think our bodies need the seasonal eating.
I feel your pain brother…YOU ARE NOT A FAILURE! Praise YAH always for His many blessings 🙌 I too am trying to figure out how, when, where and why on my little 2 acres. It can be so overwhelming cause I’m 62, a widow and I can only rely on myself. My 7 goats are in make shift pallet pens (free pallets) my sheep are in a field and they have a horse run-in for cover and the chickens well they pretty much have free reign of the homestead and go into their pallet home for the night. I need fencing and blah blah blah. No running water but Praise YAH, I have a creek close by and pump into a cistern. I only started 3 years ago on this project. Hang in there brother! I APPRECIATE YOU and YOUR SHARED KNOWLEDGE! YAH BLESS YOU AND YOUR BOYS 🙏🕊️
I remember growing up in a small town where you did not get fresh produce in winter unless you went to special expensive stores that shipped in stuff from way south. The tomatoes out of season were like cardboard and the lettuce was wilty yet some people would spend extra for that stuff in winter. My Mom gardened and canned. Being a single mom we learned to appreciate seasonal stuff. So you are not wrong in your thinking. We were never really hungry. My made things stretch and was pretty inventive with food. Boy I miss her.
We ate so many beans and greens as children, we didn't know what 'seasonal' was!
Smothered chicken was a Sunday treat. My thought, you can't miss what you never had!
PS Add a few green beans in that there 🫙!
Here’s an homeschooling idea… using your onions as an example, make that one of your children’s projects for the year. Or let them choose a different item to grow. I know your children have a lot of chores, so I’m not trying to add to it, but giving them a gardening topic takes it off your plate and gives them a specialty area of interest. When one child gets strawberries and the other one gets asparagus and then they get the pleasure of being proficient in that one crop and then switch it up next year if they want. Just an idea. 🤗
Shalom,
Green onions, and galic chives can be easily kept growing all year round.
Be well and be Blessed!
I think eating seasonally helps prevent gluttony. It's just better for us.
Thanks, Zach! I needed to hear this! Too many balls in the air!😂
I have come to terms with eating seasonally. We really appreciate the things that come in and have their season.
I had set aside some of our potatoes from last year to plant this year. I pulled them out a week ago and was so surprised to find they were holding up well enough and sprouted. I planted them all. I praise Yah for the provided seed potatoes.
I also found some sweet potatoes I saved and those looked fresh still! So I pulled out some that had sprouts and put them in water. I am hopeful they will create enough sprouts.
Ooh! The leg of ram prosciutto sounds great.
I am trying to incorporate seasonal eating. It will be hard, but I think we need to learn.
My husband and I do eat seasonally to an extent. We live in south east Iowa so I do can, dehydrate and root cellar. I plant two crops of potatoes here. The first is a smaller crop just to eat, which keep in our root cellar until the fall crop comes in. Half of the fall crop I root cellar and the other have I can. That will generally take us to the next season. Since I can items from the garden/orchard for a two-year supply, that seriously cuts down on my work because I don't have to grow/can everything every year with just one set of hands most of the time (my husband is still employed). My hat off to you with everything you do as a homesteading, homeschooling single dad. Still miss your wife's beautiful smile. Every once in a while, one of your older videos will pop up and I just have to watch it.
Myself, I think greenhouses are more work than what they're worth. And you always say to be an expert on everything you do.
We are coming to same conclusion
With the pest pressure here we are learning how and when to plant to avoid the pests that are insane certain times of year. So brassica family I won’t waste my time with until fall even though it’s a favorite. You can burn out trying to do things that don’t work well depending on where you live. Work the best you can with nature and you’ll be so much happier. And happy is good for health too.
I totally agree we need to eat seasonally.
My grandfather left potatoes in the ground up until it was too hard to dig in the winter. Kentucky zone 6b
And they stay good until you harvest them?
@@janellecovington6905 I've never personally done that. I've always grown in bags since I unfortunately live in the city, but I was told you would occasionally come across a few that had rotted, but yes...for the most part. I do plan to do this with my Jerusalem artichokes.
Never ever give up just keep on going and you will have plenty of food
I used to grow everything. Now I grow what we love to eat and what the chickens and hogs love.
Jars and cans are nice way to have peaches and cream year round
Think about how wonderful strawberries tastes when they are in season (February for me) after waiting 11 months to eat them again. Having to wait makes the eating so much better.
Greenhouses are a game changer for season extension! Onions are a challenging. I just keep bunching onions instead, small bulbs, but lots of green onions.
I dry can potatoes also. I do question my sanity growing potatoes when they are so cheap to buy in the fall.
Give value to what you grow! How much does Whole Paycheck or Trader Joe charge for organic potatoes!!!!
You won't question is when they are not available because of another plandemic or something and you have your own.
Thank you very much for your videos. 😃 I often feel like a failure, not knowing enough in gardening. Even though I’ve been doing it for over 40 years. There’s always something more to learn and more to try and a new variety, etc… it’s exhausting. I do believe it’s still a lot of FUN “if”
I don’t pressure myself. And I’m trying to simplify. So adding one or two new ideas in a season is good. 👍 It’s only me, so I do what I can do, with what I know at the time and with the resources I have… and leave the rest up to God… Gratefully!!!🙏🏼
Zach, we live in mid Maine. I plant Patterson onions. I have kept some until mid summer the following year until I ran out. They are great storage onions!! FYI. May you and yours and your listeners have a blessed and bountiful harvest!❤
Looks peaceful there.
Long-ago US Ag Sect. Earl Butz said - referring to oranges once available only in midwinter- said "we don't suffer from the high cost of living but rather the cost of living high." He correctly pointed out our 24/7/365 access to fresh and frozen fruit and juice in myriad of varieties as opposed to the days when kiddos saw citrus at Christmas if they were lucky.
It gets really hot where I live, so salad greens get sown in pots and moved around. Morning sun, and afternoon shade in summer, and full sun in winter.
I only learned about long, intermediate and short day onions 2 or 3 years ago. It's my understanding if you choose the type for your region, you get larger onions. I don't think they last longer, but I may be wrong. I live in Texas near the Oklahoma/Texas border. We are right on the line of intermediate and short day onions. I started buying onion seeds. They were easy for me to grow. I consider last year's onion crop a failure, but this year looks very promising so far. I had my tomatoes and peppers in the ground for a week or so when we had a hail storm that decimated them. I nearly decided to buy plants at the local nursery, but at $3 per plant, I changed my mind and started over with more seeds. I decided I'd just be a little late. One package of seeds was less money than one plant.
And no, you're not a failure! 😊
It’s not about expertise or laziness, it’s about priorities and independence.
Patterson and Red wing Onions stored fairly well , I am still using in April. Nothing special to store, a small fridge at 50 degrees.
Not at all Zach, i have "known" you from you tube, and countless of my friends, and others on you tube, and have NEVER heard of you being lazy. I have never heard from anyone that your not a follower of YAHUAH The Most High >Yah. Always faithful with your family, always about doing things on the Homestead, now teaching your children home school, helping your community, speaking at events etc etc. Not to swell your head, but, to me your an all around righteous fellow, who loves the Creator and Ha Mashiach, and your fellow man. I appreciate you and have always been sad about missing you, Jamie and the family in Beaumont, Texas when you were speaking there, my that has been what 7 years, i had a car wreck totaled my car and could not get there. Keep on doing what your doing, growing in the nurturing and admonition of our King. Love you Brother We are to be grateful for the bounty Yah has let us grow, and each season is a blessing, and makes us enjoy what is grown during those times, and can what we can..... :)❤💯🙏
I read about potato onions this year since they are perennial bunching onions and put leeks in to see how they do. I am trying to plant LESS. I manage/ teach 8 children 2-16, plan/ am managing and developing a family garden, chickens, goats, pets, house, meals....the list goes on and I’m in time DEFICIT! 😂 I want as easy as I can, and affordable- and the dead season is welcome when it comes😊
I feel you. We all have different situations that we deal with so we can only do our best. I do a lot of food preservation because of this. I have a short growing season and try to eat seasonally as much as possible while using food preservation for what we love, must have, or grow in abundance.
I live in Kentucky, I put out and grow what I can. Im not buying and heating a green house in the winter, eat seasonally makes more since to me. ❤
The secret to onions is to find a long storing variety,, and then after harvest dry them upside down with plenty of air flow for at least a month. Dry out the green tops completely, They will store a long time in a dark, cool area. I have onions still in good shape in April, from harvest last July. I still have some garlic too.
2:27 I get it. Us, single parents are stacked. I get the frustration
I live in the desert SW, and a small greenhouse would probably let me get tomatoes in winter, but i just dont have the time/resources or real need to build one. Instead we grow cabbage, spinach, kale, Brussels sprouts, cilantro, lettuce, carrots, turnip greens and Egyptian Walking Onions all throug winter and we just say once a month or so "i wish we had tomatoes". Come summer we are drowning in them along with squash, beans, eggplant, chile peppers and throw in the occasional watermelon and fresh peaches or apples and we are happy. Things like potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash, beets, and turnips help us get through the winter with other things we keep growing fresh. I dont know about other people, but it makes me feel connected to my ancestors who lived off the land and only had what they grew. We are not 100% self sufficient, but we are a heck of a lot more than anyone else we personally know. I love seeing people like you who are getting back to our roots and taking care of themselves.
I’m with you, Zach! I would love to do so much more but there is NOT ENOUGH time in the day for it all. I’ll plant, harvest, and preserve what I can in the summer and fall but sometimes we have to go without.
You have very good points and that about the so called guidelines are not always right. I feel that your down to earth and VERY REAL NOT FAKE. I also love that your a ham and you have gave me the renewed desire to get my ham tech. license. So very happy your into it means A LOT TO ME. thank you
I’m in zone 8B and Savannah, Georgia. we see snow about once every seven years. Mostly I have about five days in the 20s overnight. Easiest thing you could do if you live in this apartment. go to the dollar tree by a couple of mop buckets. Compost and potting soil by organic green onions plant them in your mop buckets with holes drilled in the bottom. As long as you just cut the green onion tops. They will keep growing back. in the second year, they will flower and go to seed.
Order from Dixondale and look to see what grows in your zone well, and what stores well. I grow a years worth of onions. After a while, onions are cut up and used from freezer, and many are still in the fridge. Didn’t put them in the fridge until a month ago. Also, potatoes are canned if I think they made get too wrinkled. I dry can with Ghee and they are wonderful. Glad to know we are on the same pages. I am now getting in lettuce and radishes. I have missed that during part of the winter. I go all I can in the greenhouse, but the freezes come. I don’t heat it.
I try to plant/eat seasonally, but it's pretty hard here in Florida. It gets hot pretty early...my cabbage already big, but making large leaves, not a head...the kale is huge and getting bitter. Not all the radishes came up...but we are trying! Snacking on mulberries in the food forest! Thanks, you're doing a great job.
You are right. And not many of us can so it all. Try walking onions. Ben at Hollar Homestead talked on how hardy they are. This is my third year. They come up on their own, very little care. In NE mine have been up for a month. I am able to save my dehydrated onions and start on these. Yes, they are small. No, you cannot do onion rings, but they are abundant, i get greens and an onion part. Maybe besides eating seasonally, we need to adapt to what grows easily and abundantly with very little effort.
We built a small hoop greenhouse last year. I’m definitely no “expert” but where we pulled up the cilantro and spinach that had gone to seed, a lot of those seeds fell into the dirt. So we were accidentally eating spinach and cilantro all winter!
The pioneer folks that were able to grow most of their own food were large, extended families. It's a huge amount of work. My family did pretty close when I was a preteen/teen. But there was my Dad and Mom, two older teen brothers, plus three younger siblings. We had very little free time, except for after dark. It makes sense to me to grow the crops that are most poisoned from the grocery store, but definitely be able to supplement as well. There's not a prize for doing everything yourself. 😊
11:37 no, you’re definitely not lazy. You’re doing a lot and managing life. I get it. I’m doing a bucket garden this year….. I have no clue what I’m doing. The Lord will have to help me. Just me and Him ❤
Unfortunately in Texas they have started charging about $5.00 for each tub. They use to be free. We try and eat seasonal. That’s why I can 😊.
Dry canned potatoes for the first time last fall. Loved them! Have done about three batches since and then planted the sprouted potatoes. But the dry can is way better!
Have beets, carrots and two batches of peas and potatoes all growing here in Washington. Trying onions this year, but it’s way cheaper for me to spend $45 on 150 lbs of onions. They generally last me from September till June. Though this year they made it to march. But we ate 90% of them… love onions!
Time has become a luxury none of us have anymore. My brain rarely shuts down EXCEPT when I’m canning and it’s still working but becomes focused on the canning process. Doing things over would make me crazy as well as more broke….
This is one of the reasons to grow enough of certain crops to make spices / seasoning herb selections. If you like the taste of red bell peppers, make paprika. There are tons of ways to dry and make additions to flavor foods with or extend the use of vegetables and herbs. :)
Well Zachary, you are correct. My wife and I grow some vegetables during the summer and preserve them for winter and spring months. We can and dry vegetables that we know are not available fresh all winter. We grow potatoes and eat them fresh, we also purchase 100 pounds of potatoes in November and they have lasted right up to April. We have come to the knowledge that preserving foods the same way our grandparents did.
By the way, if I had the room for a greenhouse large enough to grow food, I would. Not calling you lazy, you just have other things to do. Maybe you should build one just in case you need it.
Wild onions are good, and they are available in the Blue Ridge all through the fall and spring.
I know the content creator you are speaking about. He is wonderful and I have learned a lot from him. You are wonderful too. He just has a different life than you have there is no right or wrong here. His entire focus is gardening. You raise livestock and have children. If you can’t spread yourself any thinner that’s fine no shame in that. You both server your viewers well.
I'm going to harvest some backyard potatoes today.
Yep. In the same boat here. Glad to hear I’m not the only non “onion expert.” Homesteading is very complicated and requires everything you can throw at it. I just wish we had all learned more about survival as we grew up so we don’t always feel like we’re having to reinvent the wheel. But I have this theory that nature provides us with what we need when we need it. Example: maybe we don’t need as much energy (sugar) during the winter so there’s no fruit to be found. Seasonal eating just makes sense and we don’t need another reason to beat ourselves up.
Here in Colorado we don't have the growing season you do. But we can butcher smaller carcasses year around and ice it down. We can't hang and age it until the fall. Salt curing can be done nearly anytime. I also like to corn meat in a kegerator type refrigerator in a tall plastic bucket. We also like to make cheese in a fridge and the beer type are perfect. I like to do fish in the smoker and can them in hot weather.
Amen brother...I only have so many hours in the day
Our bodies need the astringent greens asparagus and onion in spring to detox, nightshades, seeded fruit and legumes for carb burning in summer and brassicas and heavier proteins like carnivore in winter months.
Great point!
Zach, after 30 years of traditional gardening I finally got a "high tunnel." It was a huge learning curve for me to know when to start things and not to leave them in there. Plus the water usage inside that tent was astronomical! Same with raised beds, I wanted strawberries....welp there went the water again. I think we each just do what we can to make do.
Wise advice as always as I’ve come to expect from you. Keep it up.
Yet again, spot on. And when I try to explain the concept of seasonal eating to friends I always get “well that’s what the store is for”. Clearly they’re not as worried about the tainted food supply as I am.
I plant my potatoes in the fall and leave in ground over winter in Southern Missouri works well so far, certain crops like squash keep 12 months easy if they don't freeze I think it's important to grow crops you know keep well and you know how to preserve without canning jars
We have a major local farm near us, and a couple of Russian/East European markets where we've been shopping. I appreciate the education they've given me. You'll only get what's in season in both cases. In the Russian markets, they have huge cardboard bins for what's in season. It's in east European culture to can and put up, so shopping here regularly has been super helpful for me.
What a super video. When I go to the farmers market, instead of saying "I need this today" I think I wonder what will be there today?
YOU CAN DO IT! LOL. love your show.
Grow what you can , put up what you can , with out going crazy.
Also in your video on farmers markets. I make quilts. They take a lot of work and time, but you can’t make a living at it. I might sell one once in awhile or trade for produce, or meat.
Very interesting comments. I don't live on a homestead so I live vicariously through all of you. I can recall though from being raised on a farm that the absolute most delicious canned food was chicken. The gel tasted like candy and the chicken would melt in your mouth. It made the best chicken and dumplings ever!
Blessings,
Carla
Your not lazy Zac.....I took have been thinking this way.
I am finding it hard just to stay on top each season planting the current seasons seedlings or seeds.
I feel like a failure for not getting the Simplist foods in the ground ready...... It's hard!
My daughter and I are still trying to build infrastructure and then I have to think of food, all the while milking and caring for our animals.... I wish I had help ( male muscle help), but while my daughter works, I manage/build/grow the homestead.
We have to be content with the seasonal foods!
6:53 these mineral tubs are excellent!
I threw a couple rotten mushy beets into the compost bed last summer and have been eating fresh beet greens since then. Southeast Texas with fairly moderate winters helps 😀 Kinda hate to cull those gnarly two beetroots, but I really need that space for some other things LOL!
I think seasonal eating is great, probably wise also. I know when I was a child we didn’t eat meat everyday, but every once in awhile someone would leave the rabbit cage door open, and we would get a whole lot of fried chicken and chicken and dumplings. Being a child back then was fun.
I’m right there with you brother. I’m working 12 hour rotating shifts and the time I have is already booked up. But I push on learn what I can. Hey by the way just got 4 beautiful katahden sheep of which all are pregnant. Dropping next month. Please do some videos on your sheep. I’m learning about this as well. Thanks for all you do my brother.
Shalom, I wish you would start teaching the Scriptures again.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe this is what God is leading him to do? He is helping so many people.
We are not to question each other's calling....
I just rewatch them because UA-cam somehow forces me to unlike all his stuff
Why the pressure?
I enjoy Zack's insights. I'm not saying he should quit American Homestead. I'm not trying to pressure him at all. I wanted to let him know that I was blessed by his gift of teaching the Scriptures.
@@nathannewell5512 I think when he has something he really wants to talk, on topic, it might strike the mood but I honestly believe, going back, he's covered so much that it might feel like he's doing a 3rd video on clean foods and etc. but I def agree. I enjoy his content
Not just buying stuff mindlessly in the store, because of who knows what they put in there, is absolutely solid advice. But I personally go 1 step further: Those varieties of veggies, which can ( more or less) grow off season, how are they modified, compared to old / original varieties?
Of course, we can extend the growing season with a greenhouse. That's not the point. But I don't trust those seeds, which are modified to withstand whatever conditions. As much as possible, I get old varieties of seeds and try to save seeds at the end of the growing season.
I'm still learning and most likely I'll need to keep learning for as long as I'll be growing food.
I'm trying to plant "Walla Walla" onions here in KY. Grandpa always loved them, back in Oregon. Seasonal makes some sense, though you are a pretty smart guy. I'd guess that if you felt in necessary, you'd do it just fine.
Mine is a two pronged plan. I want stuff growing all year that I can eat in season as my staple diet. But, I want a lot of storable foods to allow us to survive in case of any number of possible disasters, from loosing all my crops, to an economic disaster happening.
What I don't want to do is depend on my long term stores to feed us normally. That is key.
For me, year round onions and garlic will be in the form of powdered onions and garlic. I will use it fresh as much as possible, but, like long term storage of foods, it is nice to know the long term dried powders (and curls, I love onion with still some substance still there, not totally powdered) are there when you need them.
Thanks for the info.. something to look into. We didn't do well with onions last year so we trippled down differently this year. First time with potatoes, regretting not using weed cloth. Lol. Time to weed that garden. I've been using it in the others. Gotta have something to do, right.😂
Planted and Hope they come up. A couple hundred years ago I'd have starved. By the way you still can't get watermelon and pumpkins anytime. So we've gotten used to some.
I haven’t figured out potatoes yet. For the onions I’m starting to switch to perennial onions. I’ve started with Egyptian tree onion this fall I plan to plant potato onions. Their a little smaller about 3”-4” in diameter
Just learn what the wild onion look like and you'll have them in the spring and God takes care of those so it's just the harvest for you😊😊😊
Honestly, it's more fun to let the gardening season have it's time and space. 💚The good Lord knows I love to be in the garden, too. In the cold of winter is surely a time to enjoy a good hunt and bake some bread to keep the home warm and keep tummies full. ❤
Yes!! I learned from grow and preserve channel on dry canning potatoes. They are the best! Can't stand potatoes canned in water. If you are looking for answers on why it is something a lot of canners are are okay with doing Homesteading with the Zimmermans has a great video on it.
Most people understand that using locally sourced honey is better for you, but most people don't apply the same line of thought to the wild edibles in their area. Learn them, eat them. You and those plants both live in the same environment all year round. It has what you need to consume.
When onions are not available at the store, then you will learn. Don't stress about it. You should have ramps / wild leeks in your area. If you dont have any, then find some and plant them on your land. They are the most wonderful onion and garlic flaver. You wont want any other onion! Lol
How dare you!?!
How dare you admit that you cannot do it all? You're a famous UA-camr, everything you do is perfect and we blindly follow your every declaration!
You're good, man. Ain't nobody got time for all that. We are just trying to stay alive. :) Keep on, keeping on.
I'm all for season extension, but you have to learn to be greatful for the abundance God gives you, when he gives it to you.
And you need to be grateful for when you don't have the abundance as well because when you do, it just makes it that much sweeter.
The more experience in life that I get the more I realize that life is supposed to go in cycles, and when we try to break those natural cycles we actually tend to break ourselves.
Man I started speaking on eating seasonally over the last couple of months.
I remember I tried it around 20 years ago when I listened to a couple out of BC that was trying to do the 100 mile diet. They ended up writing a book etc.
I keep telling some friends that I take to the store that the particular fruit they buy is crap. I say " do you honestly think those blue berries are good? They're from Peru for crying out loud...go buy the frozen ones that say grown here." At least they're from the last grown crop and they maintain their nutritional value as they're generally frozen the same day that they're picked.
I'm not a tomatoe guy but I do grow 1 tomatoe plant and love the taste of a garden tomatoe and that will be my fill for the year. About 2 months back against my better judgment I purchased a couple of tomatoes...looked real nice...WTH...pure septic water mixed with cows crap taste to it....I just let them sit for a couple of days n threw them out.
Last harvest we had a bumper crop of bitter melon we're still eating them. Not much processing and threw them directly into the freezer.
You can only do so much in a day. At my age (72) you realize you can get less done in a day. I grow what I can and butcher what I can. I grew up eating seasonally so it doesn’t bother me much. When I was a kid, it was an exciting day when the peaches came ready. I’m ok with that.
I like this video
I have figured out how to have something ive grown all year. even in winter. My inground citrus come in december and January. I grow all lettuce in the house all year round under lights. all the other stuff we all grow the rest of the time. Take a bit of work but its that important. one other thing you can do is shred you potatoes for hash browns and freeze them.
A work around for the seasonal problems would be to construct an ice house and freeze ice over winter in containers like handy farm devices and how to make them ,, shows how to do that would work and make things easier
My potatoes last until late February/ early March ....I dont mind going a little while without...I've never canned them...