One of my favorite ways to deal with my garden bounty is to can it. I love canning! However, when I am putting up sweet corn, I like to freeze it. Freezing sweet corn is so easy. Let me walk you through it!How To Freeze Sweet Corn: 1.Pick and husk your sweet corn. Make sure you have as much of the silks cleaned up as possible.I tend towards picking and freezing mine in smaller batches because of my time constraints….
Some people are now finding an overwhelming urge to prep and/or prep harder. Whether it is world events or personal crisis driving that urge to prep, they just feel this need to prep or to get their preps in order.This is not a bad thing! While some preppers will caution you against panic prepping, getting yourself and your family prepared for the next crisis is a good thing. In fact, you should take advantage of this urge to prep!Some preppers,…
There is so much you can do in August! Summer is still here, the weather is mostly nice and hot, and the days are still long. People’s gardens are producing like crazy and the farmers’ markets are overloaded with the garden goodness. Kids are getting ready to go back to school if they haven’t gone back already.We still have plenty to do though with prepping. Prepping shouldn’t ever stop. I am half way through Survivors: A Novel of the Coming…
I declare August as National Clean Out Your Freezer(s) Month.Why? The reasons are endless… School is starting soon for us and may have already started for you. Summer bounty is flowing in from the garden. There may still be meals in the freezer from last year’s freezer cooking binge. There may be meat from 2014 in the bottom of the freezer. There may be frozen vegetables and fruits from 2012. You may have a storage shortage in the freezer. You…
July is the time of the year that flies by so quickly. There is never enough hours in the day to get everything accomplished. The weather is hot and very humid (at least in Iowa it is!). The garden is growing like crazy. The grass and the weeds are either having a competition to see who can grow the fastest or the grass is burnt up and the weeds still need to be mowed.For July’s prepping accomplishments, I tried to…
Summer is here! I find that prepping in the Summer is so much easier than any time of the year. While we do have to worry about storms and the “gentle” breezes that try to blow us down, we have decent weather that makes us want to be outside.June is a good month to get things done. You can do so much outside! Your time should be more available unless you have kids in a hundred activities. Then you need…