There was a period of time—a solid three-year stretch—when I baked all of the bread my family ate, made all of our yogurt, grew most of our vegetables, picked 30+ pounds of three types of berry every summer and canned more jam than we could ever eat. We planted fruit trees and berry bushes. I pickled, fermented, and made jar upon jar of a coarse, hippie translation of kimchi. Once I renounced vegetarianism after 22 meatless years, I found a local farming family and bought all of our meat from them. We put a chest freezer in the basement and filled it with a half a hog (which we upped to a whole hog the second year), 1/4 steer, a lamb, and twenty free-range chickens.
Little Suzie Homemaker
Little Suzie Homemaker
Little Suzie Homemaker
There was a period of time—a solid three-year stretch—when I baked all of the bread my family ate, made all of our yogurt, grew most of our vegetables, picked 30+ pounds of three types of berry every summer and canned more jam than we could ever eat. We planted fruit trees and berry bushes. I pickled, fermented, and made jar upon jar of a coarse, hippie translation of kimchi. Once I renounced vegetarianism after 22 meatless years, I found a local farming family and bought all of our meat from them. We put a chest freezer in the basement and filled it with a half a hog (which we upped to a whole hog the second year), 1/4 steer, a lamb, and twenty free-range chickens.