I'm going today to pick free "wine grapes."
The picture is a darker color grape, but I know nothing otherwise.
I do not know how much there is yet.
What can I do with these free fruits and how?
Quick Google search, wine looks easy but requires a LOT of trade tools I do not have.
Is there a...
A local Tractor Supply has their market day coming up.
Thinking about jumping in!
I know that I can use it as advertisement. We're new, establishing, and don't have a farm stand up yet. I want connections!
I can:
Make a bunch of feed sack bags.
Have some canned pickles I can jazz up...
I have yet to find the RIGHT recipe!
Ball canning book (which I now cannot find on my shelf...?) recipe really wasn't spectacular at all.
Tried my own random internet search concoction.
Tried a "dill pickle" season packet from local general store. This was closer but still not perfect...
I'm a bit of a coffee snob but cannot say that I am a connoisseur.
I like a nice dark, rich coffee.
My fairly new Keurig machine used to make excellent coffee for me, until I changed the bean type.
(We never use pods, I don't believe in that sort of frivolous waste, we always use a refillable...
Do you have a bulk supplier you order staples such as flour and dry beans from?
I can't seem to find one!
I do not appear to have any grain mills in my region.
In our mission to be more self sufficient, we now make our own bread. I'm a terrible cook but trying hard to learn scratch cooking...