July 20, 2010

Graham made pickled beets. mmmmm, they sure smelt good!!

Dec 21, 2009. The biodiesel heater works very well for drying apples and pears. This is a welcome treat in the winter months. Most of my diet is from last summers garden so these apples which I purchase at the local famers market in Aylmer are a very welcome treat.

Sept. 12, 2009. Been the best summer for my garden but the disaster was that the tomatoes got a fungus and that destroyed a tremendous amount of tomatoes. I have done a lot more canning this year.. pickles, beets, peaches , Chili sauce and tomatoes. I ma more relying on the garden to feed myself and what an experiment it is. After reading about the poor quality of our supermarket foods, gardening has taken on a higher priority. I eat a very vegetable oriented breakfast with my egg and alternate that with the rye I grew and threshed this year. I have quite a store of food in the cold cellar too!

	Its fun to make cider!
	The cider gang... Gynne, Stephan and Serena sharing a good time and good cider!!.. oh and yes Ginder the chicken was part of it!
	Setp 16, 2008 Serena and Stephan working the cider press.
	Yes thats breakfast! One egg and lots of veggies fried up. It actually tastes very good with Gynnes tomato chili sauce! This is using what I have at hand or have preserved in the past. I feel it is very important to learn to live within our local foods. I do not purchase much anymore... my food mainly comes for the garden, a local farmers market or it has been traded for soemthing I have.
	Sean Grantham gave me an apple peeler and slicer... it works just great. Here I am getting apples ready to dry on the window screen on my right. I put them under a glass in the sunhine for two days... great stuff dried apples.
	Bread in the oven ready to rise.
	Sept 5, 2008 Making whole wheat bread.. yes I ground the flour by hand!
	The gas cook stove is fully operational and just now I am cooking my fresh ground cereal. A day ago I cooked a loaf of bread... and a chicken! This works really well. Now to build the methane disgester!
	Well there it is.... no more electric oven... yes it is about a 1930's gas stove!
	This is the stove.... not yet complete but the upper burners work just fine.
	This is how I make my breakfast cereal... grind up the organic whole wheet grain then cook for a half hour. Hopefully I can switch to spelt at some point.
	A fresh yellow tomato from the cellar dec 15, 2007 and more to come!
	Dec 5, 2007 -Mat Making the soup from last summers garden. I stored potatoes, carrots, onions, Squash and lots of tomatoes in the cellar. Certianly comes in handy this time of year.