A Harvest of Art

An ode to the Ball Jar in all her glory!

Harvest time has come and the leaves will soon turn orange.

Now that’s one hot potato!  Dig her while she’s hot.

All available in my Etsy shop!

Oh just can it!

That’s right, canning season is upon us!  It completely snuck up on me this year, with all the unpacking, getting organized (HA) and chasing kiddos around I kind of forgot the garden was growing!  Mother nature doesn’t wait so the tomatoes and corn had to be picked.

I didn’t do bad, had around 14 quarts of tomato juice plus several bags of frozen ones for chili and soups. Corn so far I have 19 pints plus some frozen and there’s still a bit left to harvest.  I’ll be thankful for all the hard work when the cold winds of winter are blowing.  It will be a little taste of summer on a gloomy day.

I love that many of my jars are the very same jars that my mother once toiled over.  I often think of her when I’m standing over the hot stove with food bubbling away ready to “put up”.  I know she would be proud of me.  I wish I would’ve learned how to do it from her while she was alive.  Guess I was just too young to realize that it was important.  I remember thinking when I was a kid that I wish we could just have some “ready made” food for a change.  Mom always cooked from scratch.  Occasionally we would have a frozen pizza or something like that but her meals were always home cooked.  I know now that I didn’t know how good I had it.  I hope I am half as good of a cook as my mother because even half would be amazing!