Thursday, September 26, 2013

Farm life

Little man takes picking his blueberries quite seriously... He will catch me if I accidentally pick a green one. Momma did you pick this? He will say as he throws it out!

Had to include one of him working with poppy in the barn too. 

Our little garden this year. Finally convinced Kyle I was serious about not having any sprays put on it, other than the couple times I was unable to cover with sheets before the crop duster came over the blueberries behind out house... Obviously had more weeds than normal without the help of the sprays but I don't really mind pulling them any way:)

Enjoying lunch at cranes after picking peaches. We picked just under 50lbs! I puréed and froze most into ice cube trays to pop out and store in ziploc bags for our smoothie obsession. The rest we ate or froze sliced up. Yummy!



Second trip of the year to cranes we picked apples this time. Again picked around 50lbs. Also took home a few of these gourds and a few squash which we enjoyed for supper.

No trip is complete without some cider donuts and fresh cider!

Cutie pies at the pie pantry;)

Prepping the acorn squash for supper 

We made three big batches of applesauce two of them being strawberry:)

Got a total of 24 jars of sauce and hope to do more we love applesauce around here and the best part not all the added sugar!

We went to DeLanges Redberry farm for a church young couples event that I set up... Yeah we just can't get enough of farms :) had fun at the pumpkin patch on an absolutely beautiful fall day. 


Wet home with 2 big and 2 small pumpkins( didn't go overboard knowing we would be back before long) we also picked raspberries which we ate some of and froze the rest for smoothies:) bought strawberries which went into our applesauce and apple cider!

We've also been back to cranes a third time but surprisingly no photos. At least one more time to cranes for more apples!  I just love fall!