Pickle Patch Gardens

If you are following our Instagram feed @picklepatchgrdns we are sure you saw our post about today being bread making day. This is something that we love to do, but it has become quite hard to accomplish with two children who want to help. Instead of letting them help we let them "create" their own bread dough. This means they get to play with flour, water and whatever else they can convince us to let them put into their mixture. It is really great at letting them have some hands on sensory fun and keeping them occupied while we are trying to baby the dough. It is usually a great way to create a mess on the floor too, but they are getting better at that for sure.  Today we are making 2 kinds of bread in hopes to perfect them enough to start selling in the 2019 season. First off is our Swiss Farmers bread. The recipe comes from Marc's mother who is..... a Swiss Farmer,  hence the clever name. Now it is not quite a good as hers since she has been perfecting it for over...

Winter is finally here in at Pickle Patch Gardens.  It started snowing this past Monday and it looks like it is here to stay for the rest of 2018! It's one of those things that you know is going to happen every year, but when it does it is still a surprise! The garden is all out and for the most part everything is put up for the winter. We are still currently working on tomatoes, cabbage and beets. It seems as though they will never end! For our tomatoes we have made, stewed tomatoes, salsa, sun dried(in the dehydrator), tomato powder and fermented salsa. This is our first year making tomato powder and fermented salsa and we have realized both were something we were missing in our lives. Tomato powder is quite time consuming for a little reward, but its still worth it in the end. Or so we tell ourselves whilst grinding tomatoes by hand! Fermented salsa is pretty awesome. It is tangy and fizzy and awesome! The fact that it has millions of gut pleasing probiotics in it...