The Strawberry Picking Tradition continues on this year. The Stuckey family and ours filled many buckets full of strawberries. Many berries were squashed, stepped on, juiced and tasted amongst filling buckets. Leila, Jude & Lucy came with their mom Emily. This has become a tradition to go picking with the Stuckey's. Nathan dislikes gardens; so he became our photographer. He did a great job!!
After work today, we got busy making jam. We used pectin and calcium water to thicken the jam and filled 22 jars of all sizes!! Each kid helped in one way or another and we knocked it all out in a couple of hours. We had slicing the green off, mashing & blending, mixing ingredients like lemon juice and sugar. Boiling pectin water and blending. Mixing in the calcium water. Putting jam in jars and placing on lids. This will all be freezer jam. Thanks kiddos for keeping up with the tradition!
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