Tomato canning time

When my mother and grandmother were my age, and raising a family, having a big garden and canning and freezing the produce was comon place. It is just what you did to feed your family.

Now adays, most ppl get all of their produce from the grocery store or perhaps a farmer's market. Growing and canning your own food is fast becomming a lost art in America today.

This is the 2nd year we have had a garden. Dewayne and the boys have worked their butts off. We planted it on March's full moon and had a full moon ritual that night asking the goddess for her blessing and to provide us with a bountiful harvest.

Now we have just passed June's full moon and we have been harvesting for some time. We have been enjoying as well as freezing green beans, purple hull peas, corn radishes, onions, yellow squash, banana pepers, bell pepers, okra and best of all TOMATOES.

We have had fried green tomatoes, sliced tomatoes, tomatoes sandwiches and today we canned tomatoes. We still have LOTS of tomatoes left to harvest. Next week we plan to make and can spiced tomato juice.

It is very cool to sit down to dinner and know that you raised all of the vegetables on your plate. The kids are LOVING the fresh veggies. Lil Bit has almost made himeself sick on green beans lol

So we will continue this tradition, passed down from our grandmothers and hope someday our kids will do the same.

Blessed Be!