The two lean years in the garden meant that the cold store didn't get replenished much, but that has been addressed this summer and autumn - we have prepped, bottled, pickled and brewed no end.
The latest crop we are processing are the quinces. We are rather excited by our experiment for quince cider, especially as we have utilised our redundant garden shredder (it didn't work to shred wood!) to chop up the quinces, saving loads of labour .......
So far we have made 40L.
It's olive picking time. The first olives picked are for curing, we are experimenting (again), this year - we are curing the olives with lye (drain cleaner!!!!) instead of brine, as we are not fond of the brine cured olives. The next lot picked will be for taking to the mill to make into oil.
Picture of Netty (who will be 3 on Christmas day!) and Dennis the Menace (just because I can!) ........
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