09/18/2026
🌱 WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO? WELL, WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF PRESERVING LATELY! 🥬🥒
As the growing season starts winding down, we've been doing our best to preserve as much as we possibly can from the garden so that nothing goes to waste! ❤️
My husband and I recently shredded over 60 lbs. of cabbage, which is currently in the process of becoming sauerkraut! 🥬
If I had to guess (because, at that moment, we didn't actually count them 😂), we've also shredded and put probably 25 LARGE zucchini into the freezer! We absolutely LOVE having zucchini on hand throughout the winter for zucchini cookies & zucchini bread. 🍪
We already had some frozen from earlier in the season, but with how much zucchini we had available, we decided to add more rather than let any of it go to waste.
And last night... DILL PICKLES! 🥒
We prepped, speared and canned 1 whole bushel of cucumbers, making another batch of homemade dill pickles! 🫙🌿
We had already made some earlier in the season, but with our surplus of cucumbers AND plenty of fresh dill still available, we figured... why not make more?! 😋
And speaking of cucumbers — we still have a LOT available! Probably a couple bushels worth for anyone who would like to make their own pickles, relish, salads, or other goodies.
👉 They're FREE if you come pick them up here at the farm!
If you're interested, just reach out to us. We'd much rather see them put to good use than go to waste!
We hope to take another bushel and make some sweet relish! Great for egg salad, potato salad, etc.
🌸 And then there's my flower garden...
For those who don't know, my flower garden unfortunately didn't do very well this year. The deer 🦌 decided it was their personal salad bar since they weren't able to get into our produce garden.
So yes... another loss endured by the farm 💔 but I'm trying to make the best of what I can.
A lot of the flowers have started making a comeback, and I'm doing my best to salvage what has managed to survive and save as much seed as possible. 🌸🌱
Saving flower seeds is especially important to me because it gives me an opportunity to reduce some of our out-of-pocket expenses next year. When you're farming, every little bit helps!
With the threat of frost nipping at the ground any day now, it's definitely more of a rescue mission at this point — saving what I can, collecting what I can, and making the most of what this growing season has given us.
