Autumn in the garden is a good time to take a break and look back. Mike did this a few days ago, when he cleaned and reorganized our chest freezer.
Well, no, that’s not exactly a break. But it is a good time to look back over all the good things the garden has given us. And maybe to gloat just a little.
We have a freezer full of pesto, frozen vegetables, toaster pastries made with seasonal fruit fillings, apple cider, cherries and currants. We have 14 or 15 butternut squash, a fully-stocked pantry of jams, jellies and tomato puree to last the year, a refrigerator dedicated to storage of pickles. (Yes, I overdid on the pickles once again.) All that plus a vat of cherry wine, still fermenting.
And we still have plenty of garden left, with pumpkins, lots of peppers, a few green tomatoes. Not to mention sweet potatoes!
“I feel, I don’t know…” Mike said, when he came up from the basement.
“Rich?’
“Yeah. That’s it.”
In fact, we do feel rich. Nothing beats the satisfaction of filling your pantry with the fruits of your own hard work–and beating Big Food while you’re at it.
It’s like money really does grow on trees.
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