Homesteading

What we started with

Our journey to self sufficiency

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The Pantry The Pantry bread babies bread baby fight alien bread tasting cinnamon buns The bounty What we started with In the canner What's left Peaches Peaches Peaches Peaches Lisa and the cans the jelly bag - aka pillow case Blackberry Jelly Organic Chicken roast with garden veggies Getting Started Dinner is Served - Bon Apetite Dinner is Served Dinner up close fat loaves loaves Canning madness! The process Almost sauce In they go Ready for the jars the sauce Ready for the sauce Tomatoe Sauce Pears Tomato explosion The final product Our roast beef Cooked by the loving sun Fat Chewing Justin chewing the fat Beets from the garden Blanching Pretty peeled beats Ready to go Beet flower Beets! Harvest dinner Sorting through the cans Bobbing for apples The many stages of apples Cannned apple slices Almost done! Cooking down the jelly bits The apple jelly bag 2007's full pantry Dandelion Fritters - Step 1 Dandelion Fritters - Step 3 Dandelion Fritters - Step 2 fill 2/3 full with water strained chicken broth and pour blend until smooth add soup left overs