No Garden? You Can Still Preserve the Harvest!

Don't have a garden?  You can still preserve the harvest!  Buy all you can from your local farmer (Have you taken the 30 day 100 Mile Challenge?) and farmers markets, then preserve your bounty for later!

For freezing you will need some necessary equipment:

• Baking Sheets
• Freezing Bags
• Stock Pot
• Knives and good Cutting Board
• Pots to boil water and bowls for cold water to shock before freezing
• Freezer space.

We will cover other methods of food storage in later posts.

Today we are working on some Asparagus.  It is almost time for the Asparagus to disappear from your farmers offerings so better hurry because this is last minute.

To freeze Asparagus you simply chop into 1 inch pieces, plunge into boiling water for a couple minutes, fish out the asparagus and plunge into ice water to stop the cooking process.  Then you simply spread on a baking sheet and freeze.  Once frozen bag into freezer bags for you to pull out when needed.

Today I'm taking this a step further.  Because we are currently caring for our 6 month old granddaughter I often don't have time to make myself some lunch.  Thus, I'm making a large batch of Cream of Asparagus soup and freezing in single serving sizes.

First I have to make some Chicken Stock (Bone Broth).  Great Instructions here:

http://heritageharvesthome.blogspot.com/2013/02/grandmother-knew-best.html

Next I've chopped 8.25 cups of Asparagus

Now I'm going to follow the instructions on our previous post on


Asparagus Soup for One

and multiply it times seven and freeze in single serving sizes, in freezer bags, on my baking sheet then store in a larger freezer bag so they don't get lost in the freezer.

Now it's your turn to buy up some onions (you can use green onions like I am doing today), garlic and asparagus from your local farmer and get busy preserving the harvest!