Freezing and canning the harvest in the summer makes for easy, fast, and tasty meals in the winter. Here, chunky canned tomatoes are added to sauteed onions and garlic, herbs, and a little maple syrup (all from the farm). Served over store-bought frozen raviolis.

Freezing and canning the harvest in the summer makes for easy, fast, and tasty meals in the winter. Here, chunky canned tomatoes are added to sauteed onions and garlic, herbs, and a little maple syrup (all from the farm). Served over store-bought frozen raviolis.

Field mouse tracks across the snow. Notice the line in the center where it dragged its little tail along!
Last summer we grew trials of nine different kinds of dried beans. Part of our job this winter is to taste-test all of them! These are the Indian Woman Yellow Bush Beans soaking before being used in a tasty (eastern) Indian curry.