Preservation Fall

A 1/2 bushel of City Fresh Peaches turned into peach jam, peach salsa and canned peaches in honey. Sunshine in January!

The City Fresh romas were de-skinned, food milled, and turned into sauce for use in Cleveland's post-tomato months. 





Community garden plot onion and shallots: a key ingredient to the freezer stored pesto I made. 



Backyard herb spiral basil bound for freezer pesto



Great Ohio grown cucumbers from the Basketeria at the West Side Market. Pickling these  now in my fermentation crock with fresh garlic, dried dill, a couple grape leaves for crispness, brine and peppercorns. The crock is bubbling as I type.