Plot to Pantry: Harvesting & Canning Enough Food To Feed Our Family

Join us for a day of harvesting and canning enough food to feed our family for the year. We’re picking fresh tomatoes, potatoes, and raspberries from our garden, plus turning a generous gift of cucumbers into a year’s worth of pickles. We’re also transforming unwatered courgettes into delicious, moorish brownies.

Recipes:

Easy Garlic Dill Pickles Recipe
This straightforward recipe for crunchy garlic dill pickles uses the low-temperature pasteurisation method to ensure maximum crispness. Ideal for beginners and experienced preservers alike, these pickles are a fantastic addition to your home preserving skills. Follow along for a tasty, shelf-stable treat!
Ingredients
Salt Brine (for soaking)

90 g salt (preferably non-iodised, such as sea salt)
1 litre warm water
Cold water (to fill a 7.5-litre container)

Pickle Brine (for preserving)

2 litres filtered or distilled water
1.5 litres vinegar (5% acidity, pasteurised)
60 g salt (preferably non-iodised, such as sea salt)
50 g caster sugar
1 tablespoon pickling spices (store-bought or a mix of black peppercorns, mustard seed, coriander seed, dill seed, allspice berries, red chilli flakes, and bay leaves)

Jar Ingredients (per 500 ml jar, 8 jars total)

3.6 kg pickling cucumbers
1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon mustard seed
1 teaspoon fresh dill leaves (or dill seed)

canned at 82-85C for 30 minutes (adjust for elevation)

Roasted whole tomatoes

canned 35 minutes at a rolling boil. (adjust for elevation)

Courgette brownies:

• 1/2 cup browned liquid butter
• 1 cup cane sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups finely shredded courgette, patty pan, whatever you have (DO NOT DRAIN)
• Chocolate chips (as many as you want)

Thanks to Jon Yallop for the music.

How we sowed our garlic: https://youtu.be/NMqUj5owCxg?si=DaitlUBgwI299087

How We sowed potatoes: https://youtu.be/EicleuGZ2O0?si=YHfEmj0tYJD2dCGu

How we water: https://youtu.be/NWP-GRq_I-c?si=RkVLeBzhrQIgV4Cz

Our Weed control methods: https://youtu.be/aAZBEYEA9e8?si=QP0bHTMYXNgNm3PW

How we prune our tomatoes: https://youtu.be/jB1Legix4M0?si=P5mq-Be48G9Nua1s

How we Keep Our chickens: https://youtu.be/D3zkDukLA0c?si=PW1wcLKCcpJbrUFu

How to Harvest Garlic: https://youtu.be/K4YSOQgqbgQ?si=zcNxjoG3tTnqwlk5

How to Store food: https://youtu.be/lHw4AFLzo2Q?si=OTNz7rh8slKwwa1P

Our Food store set up: https://youtu.be/8dgzie4_Oys?si=_mp5_W5Z0BuYyWR0

How to cure potatoes: https://youtu.be/OTusH616C-A?si=DixykBfsqfCmb3ek

How to can tomatoes:
https://youtu.be/Cyrj_8ADwP4

My automatic canner:
Jars wide mouth: https://amzn.to/3UVJVgG
Jars narrow mouth: https://amzn.to/4mEmJ2h
Lids: https://amzn.to/45xxGM2

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Happy gardening,

Nik

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