Fall and winter preps

[TheGrey]

Looks great!

[Great-Kazoo]

Picked some fresh rosemary and oregano to cook up some spaghetti meat sauce for dinner. Also picked some fresh lettuce and zucchinis to go with dinner

Nice, we've had zero luck this year. Outside of green beans, everything else is not producing. But it seems to be the norm around here, this year,. Compared to last when we donated tomatoes, carrots and over 10 lbs of lettuce to the food bank.























As for the rosemary. IF anyone would like some, we have a healthy bush out back that can and needs to be trimmed.

[encorehunter]

Do any of you sell some of your preps to offset costs? My wife started selling jelly last year from what we had harvested. I believe she was charging $8 a pint or $10 for the 1.5 pint. She sold so much, we almost had to buy jelly for the boys.
It paid for all the sugar, jars, a nice stainless juicer (my mother loves the juicer), several stainless pots, food processor, and plum and cherry pitters.
We are cleaning out the freezers now for beef, so we are processing all the juice into jelly. I didn't realize we still had about 25 gallons of juice in the freezer.

[TheGrey]

Do any of you sell some of your preps to offset costs? My wife started selling jelly last year from what we had harvested. I believe she was charging $8 a pint or $10 for the 1.5 pint. She sold so much, we almost had to buy jelly for the boys.
It paid for all the sugar, jars, a nice stainless juicer (my mother loves the juicer), several stainless pots, food processor, and plum and cherry pitters.
We are cleaning out the freezers now for beef, so we are processing all the juice into jelly. I didn't realize we still had about 25 gallons of juice in the freezer.

That's amazing! I haven't considered doing it because of Colorado's stupid"cottage industry" law that requires the address of the kitchen used to produce the product to be listed on the label. I have been making a ton of jelly and jams, though.

[encorehunter]

Thats where it pays off owning mutiple properties. We dont have to put our home address, just which kitchen it was made in.
My wife has an amazing salsa recipe that I have been told need to be bottled and sold. Sadly, it has to be done in a commercial kitchen, which we don't have full access to yet.
The first time she put it in a competition, it took 3rd place. She made it hot, not playing to the judges. After the competition, she had a line of people asking for it. One of my captains is a self proclaimed chip and salsa connoisseur, and he wants it all the time. He stocks and sells chips and dip in stores in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, so he would be more than willing to add it to his line up. Which brings us back to needing to build a commercial kitchen.

[Erni]

Thats where it pays off owning mutiple properties. We dont have to put our home address, just which kitchen it was made in.
My wife has an amazing salsa recipe that I have been told need to be bottled and sold. Sadly, it has to be done in a commercial kitchen, which we don't have full access to yet.
The first time she put it in a competition, it took 3rd place. She made it hot, not playing to the judges. After the competition, she had a line of people asking for it. One of my captains is a self proclaimed chip and salsa connoisseur, and he wants it all the time. He stocks and sells chips and dip in stores in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, so he would be more than willing to add it to his line up. Which brings us back to needing to build a commercial kitchen.

You don?t need to build a kitchen just find a commercial share kitchen. We were recommended to just use the local commercial share kitchen in Longmont when we thought about starting a bakery biz.


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[Great-Kazoo]

You don?t need to build a kitchen just find a commercial share kitchen. We were recommended to just use the local commercial share kitchen in Longmont when we thought about starting a bakery biz.


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If not one available near you. Check with a local VFW, KoC, or DAV hall in the area. That's what a few "cottage" business use, as it's already health dept certified.

[encorehunter]

I will have to look into those. I don't know of any "timeshare" commercial kitchens locally, but I do know a few of the others like these.

[hollohas]

Super cheep (instant rebated) LED bulbs at Costco. $0.99 for a 6 pack.

Maybe not necessarily a fall or winter prep for the pending overblown viral apocalypse, but a darn good buy to stock up on.

These are the nice ones made of glass.

[tactical_2012]

Not much of a fall or winter prep. But dealing with my kids going to outside multiple times a day leaving the back door open got me thinking after swatting fly after fly. I need to add some fly swatters to emergency preps.