I can outside using propane burners. Our stove is a 1950 Chambers and something did not go quite right in the gas to propane conversion and it does not get just blazing hot... I have trouble with getting up to temp for jellies with it... and it's hotter than blazes here in canning season... so the outdoor kitchen is in the works.
I grow Amish paste and Ace 55 tomatoes for canning... Brandywine and Black Krim are my favorite slicing, sandwich and salad tomatoes and they grow gangbusters here. Don is really our green thumb... he has such a love for the garden.
We sell everything to our shareholders. Our farm shares are sold out with a waiting list. We mostly farm for our own family but God has blessed and their is a surplus... We have had the same families for between 3 and 5 years. They get their milk here, overflow produce (or we allow them to plant a garden here), eggs are available all the time. Beef, pork, meat chickens are done twice a year. Duck, turkey and goose are available at holidays.
I also make soap for them, and occasionally cheese, yogurt, keifer, butter, etc. when I have extra milk and time. Pretty much anything I can make is gone the minute it's available.... We have such good families that are really here for us and faithful to get what they can here first. We have been blessed to know them and to be able to carry some of them through job losses and other crisis without payment when their money was tight. We do barter for everything from cooked meals from a chef to welding our gates.
The farm has also given us many chances to pray with and for our shareholder families. One sweet family lost a toddler to drowning a few weeks ago and is still hurting... It seems that with the farm opportunity is everywhere to reach out in love. This farm has been our open door to people in all walks of life... people we would never have met otherwise... It is truly a gift from God.
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