Finished up the garden season with more jars of slumgullion, green beans, pickled hot peppers and a couple jars of rabbit....wishing it was the rabbit that's chewed several holes in my garden fence this year.
Next thing to can will be apples, then..hopefully...deer, then the fall cull of the flock for canning up chicken. Then, finally, I can put away canning supplies until next year.
I simply LOVE the ease of opening a jar of chicken and making soup so quickly, tasting better than any chicken from the store and satisfying in a way that one cannot experience outside of eating food they've grown on their own land and in their own way. It's all gourmet quality food and it's the only way us poor folk could ever afford that high quality food experience any time we wish.