Preserving Summer Squash & Saving Seeds

“It’s that time of year for us… the summer squash is starting to produce.

We usually get more squash than we need with just a handful of plants in our garden. In real good years we often find squash sitting by our back door when we come home, dropped off there by our friends and neighbors that end up with too much to handle from their gardens.

I really hate to waste the food that we’ve been blessed with so preserving the excess has been an interest of ours since the first time we gardened.

Squash is a great candidate for dehydrating or freezing. I have heard that pressure-canning squash will provide poor quality and possibly unsafe results but I’ll have to leave that up you to verify since we do not hot can any of foods yet. Here’s a collection of preservation tips from our own experience and from around the web…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...

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