Pumpkins

I canned pumpkin for the first time ever!  I used the website simplycanning.com to help me.  The hardest part was getting the rind off.  It was tough!  It looks great and will hopefully make great pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins with the leftover pumpkin.  I believe I am done canning food for the year, whew!  I canned enough food to hopefully last us a year.  We also have our meat in the freezer, pork and beef.  Not to mention the rabbits whenever we are in the mood for rabbit.  Now I need to get the garden cleaned up and ready for the next season.  I will hopefully be able to plant some spinach and lettuce and maybe some radishes in some cold frames.

Busy with apples, pumpkins and rabbits

We have been busy with apples and rabbits lately.  I have canned applesauce, apple juice and apple pie filling.  I will be drying apples next and then canning pumpkin.  We butchered 11 rabbits last week for people wanting meat to eat.  Yum!!  I am also getting ready for the Christmas bazaar sales.  Lots of sewing and woodworking going on.  I will try to post pictures as soon as I can get this computer to work!!

Making Apple juice and applesauce

Hello everybody!!  Today we are making homemade apple juice with some local apples, YUM!  We will be using a steam juicer and then using the pulp to make applesauce.  A great fall project.

Here is my husband John in our corn field.  We grow a year supply of  food on our homestead.

 This is the herb garden in the spring or early summer.

                                     Here is the garden in full bloom with a year supply of vegetables ready for                                                     harvesting.

                                     My lazy cat!!!!

                           One of our many rabbit hutches.  We raise rabbits for meat and to sell.

                               Harvested garlic and dried peas to replant next year, from our garden of course.

                       Another one of our gardens, we have fruit trees, berries, asparagus, rhubarb and more planted in this garden.

Hello!  I am Laura Morrison and I live in Grand View Idaho.  I live on a two acre piece of land that has become our homestead.  We grow most of our own food and raise almost all of our own meat.  I am in the process of trying to put together classes to teach people about homesteading and how to become more self sufficient.  I am canning grape juice today!!  It smells delicious!