Harvest season is always a busy time of year. It seems that all the "fruit" of the years labor comes ripe, needs to be butchered or processed at the same time. This weekend we are once again butchering chickens (not our favorite task), making and canning ginger pickles, making and canning peach jam, picking apples, picking and processing tomatoes and onions. As well as the normal daily tasks like feeding and cleaning up after the chickens ducks and turkeys. The eggs also need to be collected at least three times a day. The eggs also have to be sorted cleaned, packaged labeled and refrigerated.
Being self sufficient is not a life style for lazy people. All the things I've mentioned here along with much much more, are in addition to our regular jobs.
In the end, it's a great life with many rewards, but you get out of it what you put into it and you work for what you get.
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