I am passionate about creating unique recipes and having healthy foods to eat and saving money. Due to our budget limitations I cannot afford to have local, fresh, organic produce year round.
My solution? Buy in bulk when the prices are low and the crops are abundant to preserve for when prices are sky high or the food is unavailable. I primarily dehydrate and freeze the food. I would like to learn how to can but for right now dehydrating and freezing more then serve the purpose.
While buying large quantities is a great solution it does not satisfy my desire to have a large variety of fruits and vegetables in our diet. Even now with more and more heirloom varieties being grown and sold at the markets and stores I still am left wondering where I can find more varieties. Every few years I get lucky and find purple carrots but generally I am limited to 3-4 carrots and then only if I buy everything in the store.
My solution? Learning to grow our own food. This past year I started gardening with a friend. I am happy to say that we had a successful harvest. The fruits of our labor were not all edible and a good portion of what we reaped was in knowledge rather then edibles but that was just fine with us. We now know what to do and, more importantly, what not to do next year.
The colors of our carrot harvest.
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