a farm evening.

There is fear of a possible frost on Sunday night, so for the next few days we're harvesting as much of the remaining crops as possible up at the farm. This evening a few of us went up and picked lots of tomatoes, as well as some peppers, watermelon, strawberries (yes there still were some!), and beets. Erick and I will be up again on Sunday afternoon. We like the farm. Erick loves going after a day cooped up in the hospital. I love it after a day crouched over knitting/the computer. Such a wonderful relief to be outside doing some manual labour. Thank you farm.

tomatoes galore!

Preserving tomatoes. On Wednesday I canned pasta sauce (with basil and swiss chard) and whole tomatoes with Amanda. On Thursday I canned salsa. And I still have some tomatoes left. Salsa and pasta sauce are very time consuming - so much peeling and seeding and chopping. Canning whole tomatoes is easiest, but it's nice having pasta sauce and salsa all ready to go, made entirely with fresh summer ingredients.