It happens every year at about this time...tomatoes ripen and need to be canned for the winter months, when they'll be used in chili and stews. This year, we moved at a time when I normally would have been putting in the summer garden, so I have nothing growing to put up (except a few quarts of nectarines from the tree we inherited from the former owners). But my husband was able to procure, through a farming friend, all these lovely organic Roma tomatoes, and so canning will begin in earnest tomorrow. I'm also going to finally put the solar food dehydrator I got last year to use, and hopefully cut up and dry some of these so we can have sun-dried tomatoes for our pizzas. Feels good to be doing this, and to know that it won't be long now until fall comes, when I will be able to put in a garden and get back to the homesteading business, as usual.
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