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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2541 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 18 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Apple picking for the food bank - yesterday some of us from the garden club went to the research farm. We picked 793 pounds of apples (Empire, Macoun, and Fuji) 475.5 pounds of Asian apple-pears and European pears, 71.3 pounds of winter squash, and 23.4 pounds of tomatoes.
The tomato plots were being ripped out so we could only go in the two that didn't have equipment in them. And the string supports had already been taken off the posts so plants were tumbled over. Food bank only accepts undamaged fruit so when picking for myself I took tomatoes that had black spots, bruised, whatever - we've been "enjoying" very wet weather.
I washed, cut out bad spots, ran through Victorio squeezer. Such a nice device - wash tomatoes, cut off stem scar, cut in half. Feed through hopper, turn crank, and raw tomato puree comes out through screen while very dry skins and seeds feed through the front.
Got nearly a gallon of puree. Tomato sauce in the freezer's future . . .
And I found a couple more small hen of the woods, Grifola frondosa. I did put a link to the mushroom foraging entry that's on my web site in Chat, where gz was wondering what / if anyone is blogging about. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8822 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 18 9:28 am Post subject: |
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You are certainly picking a lot of goodies for the food bank Jam Lady. I too am impressed with the puree producer, separating off the bits you don't want.
I failed badly with the flu jab. I was not too well having eaten too many nuts in the middle of the night, and the system got overloaded, resulting in a lot of stomach ache at work-serves me right for being a glutton. I thought it was my belt too tight. So little Clive wouldn't do me and I now have to go another time. Back to normality today. I think there may be another flu jab session to go, even at this late stage.
I am hoping to fill my trailer with scrap metal today. I have over the years cut a lot of pallets into firewood lengths and chopped them. Now I find I have a lot of nails in a lot of boxes which need to go! Being a bit of a hoarder, and being honest, I probably have about 5cwt of nails, and a lot of other scrap associated with agriculture including gates whose tubes I always imagined "might come in". My neighbour said the time has come! So she is coming round to help-read supervise-I can see I will have to check on it all anyway, but it would be good to be able to park outside the back door instead of the trek I currently have to do, along a muddy path, plus access to my well for vehicle washing. This shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks especially if I do some every night, and take it to my local scrap dealers on my way from work each day. Well that is the aim..... |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2541 Location: New Jersey, USA
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46089 Location: yes
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2541 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 18 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Today is not going well, a lousy day at work, followed by yahoo not allowing me into my account for some reason, which I access 4 times a week, and wanting some info like a phone number which I don't have. They tell me there has been some unusual activity on the account. Oh dear-my means of communication with the rest of the world has been removed. Manure flies in agriculture as well as with yahoo; I have been un-loading parts for a spreader this morning at work!
Your food bank seems to do really well out of you Jam Lady and the growers of the fruit; fruit is so essential for health. As a child of the post war era, I got free orange juice for vitamin C, until I was about 5 years old.
Glad Sunday improved for you at the show, MR. Not much fun outside in wet weather-and lack of customers. I stayed at home most of the time-out for Sunday lunch, but otherwise I chopped firewood, lots of it. The wood is not selling as fast this year as last for some reason. I have had a pay rise this time and it which may account for it, but I will pop round and have a look at the competition's prices. They have never had my quality as they don't saw the ends of the wood, so lots of splinters-not good, and they store outside, mine is under cover, but live and let live, healthy competition. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 18 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Hope today is better and that you get into your Yahoo account.
I didn't get free orange juice, but some of my friends did; think it was restricted to larger families by the time I was around, and it was really lovely. Haven't been able to get much the same since. My mother gave me rose hip syrup, which I also liked very much.
Hope your kindling starts to go better once the weather gets colder.
We had quite a busy day yesterday. Had a load of firewood to cut, and as the timber was a bit bent, husband decided he had to cut it, so I had to move it from the frame to the belt on the processor. He had to help me with one of two bits, but got it done all right. Then we had to finish emptying the big retort kiln. That has pretty well filled a dumpy sack, so we just moved that under cover as close as possible to the kiln and covered it. Needs bagging, but that can be done next week. Then a Committee meeting in the evening at which I had to take the minutes. |
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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Posted: Thu Oct 11, 18 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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A bonus in that I got into my email account today, so my friend here in the library must have had a word with the powers that are in yahoo. Alternatively there was a glitch which self corrected!-No emails to reply to anyway!
The country supplied the orange juice and Granny supplied the rose hip syrup. The one thing, at school, I hated was milk to drink. Eventually a note was sent not to force milk down my neck. I really loathed milk in winter, when it was put on the heating pipes to warm up to make it drinkable-I remember being sick at school with that milk-till mother sent the note! Now I drink it all the time. I think-read "know"-I was a difficult child! Old age has mellowed me without doubt. I think the free orange juice finished in 1952 MR.
I have a friend who was kicked out of his home when his uncle died and although he was supposed to inherit the farm, the deceased uncle changed his will from the expressed will of his grandparents, who had predetermined the succession. How horrid can people be to their own kith and kin. It would have at least been an idea to leave him there till he died or couldn't carry on, he is 71, loved the farm and his cats. One has just died at 27yo. The family decided that one of his cars was part of the estate-not true-but he hid it in case at my place and I am now pleased to say it has gone.
Reading about you having the charcoal in a dumpy bag reminded me that I have one with a special base which is slightly tube like about 9 inch diameter, and with a tie to stop it emptying all the time. I wondered if one of those would work for the charcoal for you and make filling the sacks easier. Does a quality controller-inspector-come into what goes into a charcoal bag? My dumpy bag was for fertiliser and the farmer was pleased to get rid of it. It will go to work fullish of sawdust as the first idea I had for it. |
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Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15863
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 18 6:05 am Post subject: |
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I didn't realise the free orange juice finished in 1952. It must still have been available in clinics later, as that was the year I was born. Thinking about it, perhaps they could buy it at baby clinics well into the 1950s for a reasonable price, as it tended to be families with younger children that had it.
That sort of sack would perhaps be useful Gregotyn, but we are generally trying to bag straight from the kiln now using a potato bagger. We put the charcoal over a sieve before it goes into the sacks and break up some of the really large bits. There is no inspection as such, but we do work to our coppice group charcoal standard, so anyone wanting to know can check that.
Weather forecast here seems to be varying by the hour, so hoping we don't get too much bad weather; sounds nasty in the West Country with no trains running west of Exeter, although not quite sure why, but the section along the coast by Dawlish Warren sounds a likely candidate for one part. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8822 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
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