First cantaloupes.

Pretty much all of the onions from this year. The leeks didn’t do so well. The weeds grew in pretty thick and held moisture near the base of the plants. The leeks mostly rotted away at the base. The onions did the same, but since their greens aren’t really required, the fact that they were mushy to the base wasn’t as big a deal. The bulbs were entirely sound, and I dried them in the sun for a day before putting them in the pantry. They seem fine.

OMG, it happened again. This is the last harvest, from about a week or so ago. It will probably be one of the last big ones. The squash and cucumber have been pulled out, as their production had started to drop (cucumbers) and they had started to succumb to some form of fungus or another. The tomatoes are nearly half eat-up with early blight, and the ones that aren’t are so out of control that they’re overgrowing everything in sight. I’m going to pull them soon too.

Making tomato sauce is my favorite, but drying tomatoes in the oven is the quickest and easiest way to preserve them.

Here, Issa is putting cuts of pork into the freezer, after picking them up from the processor. All of those coolers that you see, and a few more, were full.

The freezer is filling up. This is about half of the meat. In the end, the entire thing was full to the brim. Looks like this is a two-pig freezer!