Introduction to Farm Freezing, Part 5
We're very lucky to own
both a huge freezer and a medium freezer, which makes our food
operations much more efficient. In the summer as we become
overwhelmed by vegetables, we start to fill up the small freezer.
By late summer, the small freezer is chock full, so we unplug it, plug
in the big freezer, and transfer our wealth over. And we keep
freezing more produce, of course, until the big one is mostly full.
As the big freezer begins to empty out in the spring, we transfer
everything back to the small freezer. This year and last, by
freezer transfer time, I've realized that I froze too much of certain
types of food, so I gave them away. It's a good feeling to be
able to fill your mother and brother's freezers, then give them some
extra to pass on to their fixed income friends. Read my last
few hints --- last chance meat and the Berry Syndrome....
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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