We picked our first strawberries of 2018 this week so I thought I would repost this from 2016 to show you some of the ways we will be preserving strawberries this year. We are now praying for a bountiful season like we had in 2016.
It’s been my dream for more than a decade to grow a nice strawberry patch, ever since the first year I made homemade strawberry jam and my family loved it so much that store bought strawberry jam was no-longer welcome in our home. Since growing our own berries would lower the cost involved in making homemade jam, we decided to put in a strawberry patch. We started with a few plants in a raised bed, and over the next several years made several strawberry beds in our yard. We never yielded more than a few handfuls of small berries, so every June, when the strawberries were ripe, I would go to one of our local strawberry farms and buy at least 2 (10 quart) flats of fresh, Michigan grown strawberries and make most of them into jam.
When we bought the farm in 2011, having a nice strawberry patch was still one…
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Ooo nothing quite like home grown strawberries! We have a couple in the garden and I picked them last week, but I’ve never done anything with them except eat them as they are, so I might have to try freezing them/making jam like you did! 🙂
Caz x
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I love that we can grow enough that I can preserve some and eat them throughout the year. Even frozen they are better than the ones we buy at the store. 🙂
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Love it – Naturally Phat
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Thank You!!! 🙂
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I made some jam too today!
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Once I started making homemade jam my family refused to eat store bought – there was no tuning back. LOL.
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Haha… I bet. It’s sooo yummy!
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I could eat peanut butter and strawberry jam everyday if I had to.
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Me too!😋
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Thanks for sharing that strawberry story Ruth – I enjoyed reading it. Our neighbors across the street, now long gone, used to go to Belleville and pick strawberries every Summer. They would “put up” jam for all winter and freeze the rest.
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I love strawberry season. There is nothing like fresh-picked strawberries.
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So True! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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My kids love picking strawberries. The concentrate recipe on your original post looks yummy!
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We are expanding our patches each year and hopefully in a year or two will be able to have a U-pick strawberry farm.
The strawberry lemon aid is very good.
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That sounds like so much fun! You’ll have to share photo’s 😊
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Absolutely!
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