On Sunday, our family joined forces with another family and went strawberry picking. Within 45 minutes we had picked 90 pounds of strawberries and could have kept going.
We split them 50/50 and went home to start processing.
20 gallon bags of frozen strawberries went through first only to be followed by my husband's hard work putting up strawberry jam. He even added vanilla beans to one batch to create a vanilla strawberry jam that was divinity itself.
19 half pint jars of jam later, we are grooving on the food saving and gearing up for the other berries that will be coming in soon- namely the notorious, delicious and intrusive blackberries (yumaliciousness!) and then pickling season.
The kombucha is in full swing- 2 one gallon jars of the green tea/honey concoction that our scoby was born and raised in many generations ago. Add to that a gallon jar of our first try at kimchi and life is feeling very abundant at the moment.
The children are even in good moods with less bickering and a lot more hugging and playing. The decompression from school has begun and we are all re-establishing our connections to ourselves and each other.
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