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7 Jul ’14 - 5:52 pm
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I know there was a thread at some point about what we were producing but I can't find it!

I have been freezing at the moment. I know in the long run it uses more energy, but it is much easier for me to fit it into my time frame right now. 

I have a months worth of greens! Last year because of the extreme rain, my greens did poorly and I hardly had any put away for the winter. I missed having greens. 

So I've frozen collards, chard, lambs quarter and nettles. 

The beans are coming in and I have several packages of them already. 

Since I am alone I am doing everything in quart sizes rather than gallons

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I think that was the food production 2013 thread, wow, you have been busy, how much freezer space do you have? Do you do any dehydrating at all?

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how is the chard after freezing?

You just freeze it or you do some preparation before?

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KVR said
I think that was the food production 2013 thread, wow, you have been busy, how much freezer space do you have? Do you do any dehydrating at all?

I have two chest freezers. I don't have a dehydrator nor do I have a pilot on my oven so I freeze and can. Mostly freeze right now because it takes less time. I know it takes more energy in theong run but time is my issue right niw

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simthefarmer said
how is the chard after freezing?

You just freeze it or you do some preparation before?

I blanch all if my greens before freezing. I seperated the stems from the leaves as the stems need to blanch longer but I combine them again for the freezer. Chard is secellent this way. 

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hmm,might have to try that

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