This video goes over making homemade zucchini bread. This involved zucchini harvested from my garden and a number of other ingredients that you likely already have around your kitchen. This is a tasty and fun way to use some of your excess harvest. Check out the blog article at: http://greatescapefarms.com/making-homemade-zucchini-bread/ Please help support our efforts by shopping through our Amazon link https://amzn.to/29XrTEL It won’t cost you any additional money and it will help a small business out. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvXp0ucfocc

Preparing Elderberries for Recipes This post is about Preparing Elderberries for Recipes. I originally harvested them and just tossed them in the freezer for future processing. That future processing is what we will cover today. Here is a video of a recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnLdBgsWac4 Timeline I harvested my elderberries on September first. I left them on the stem, removed any bugs I found, washed them, put them in a clean garbage bag, and tossed them in the freezer. I pulled them out of the freezer on December 30th to prepare them for my recipes. Time The reason I did not immediately process the elderberries is that I was swamped with everything ripening and needing attention all at once. Freezing the elderberries allowed me to push some work off to a later date when I wasn’t that busy. The Bag As I stated a few moments ago, the elderberries were stored in a clean garbage bag. It was one of those large 55-gallon clear trash bags. The elderberries are a mix of several varieties including Johns, Adams, Nova, and American. I also labeled the bag with “Elderberries 2016” so that I would know at a later date exactly what I had in the bag and how long it had been in the freezer. Don’t Defrost Elderberries are easy to work with raw if they have not been frozen. They are also easy to work with once they have been frozen, if you keep the frozen. However, they get mushy when they have been defrosted, so once they have been frozen, keep the frozen for the processes described in this post or it will get very messy. The way I do this is I take out of the bag only what I can work with in fifteen minutes or so and I put the bag back in the freezer. I process what I removed from the bag, put the processed elderberries in a labeled 1 gallon Ziploc bag and back in the freezer they go. Processing The processing the elderberries involves removing all shriveled up elderberries and any stems. You want no stems in your processed elderberries at all as they can be toxic. You also want to remove any green elderberries. You want only fully ripe elderberries in your bag. Rinse Later We will give one final rinse on the elderberries at a later date, right before we use them. Do not rinse them now before they go back in the freezer as they will make a huge ice chunk. The elderberries will freeze together a little, more or less depending on how defrosted they became while you were processing them. Picking Stems The way I process elderberries is I just pull out the amount I’m going to process and put into a colander. Then I pull the berries off the stems and drop them back in the colander. The stems get placed in a bowl I have off to the side and they will go in the compost pile later. Keep pulling stems until they are all removed. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3e-Xeuo3iI

Plant Walk: Contour Plant Line explores some of the plants that we planted on contour about 4-1/2 years ago. #garden #gardening #homestead ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qbPUPzrRMI

We show you how we preserve our cucamelon (Pronounced kookamelon), also known as sour gerkin. Link to the Brine Calculator: https://myfermentedfoods.com/tools/brine-calculator/ Note: We are an Amazon affiliate and do get a small commission off of this item if purchased. It does not cost you one cent more. Ball Fermentation Lid and Spring: https://amzn.to/3PsrXPO Rubber Fermentation Lid: https://amzn.to/48AmtLJ Glass Fermentation Weight: https://amzn.to/46v6pJ6 0:00 Intro and Harvest 0:51 Brine Calculation and Solution 2:22 Spices 4:01 Add Brine 4:28 Put a Cap on It 8:16 Done #fermentation #vegetables #vegetable ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZzfGIi_DMA