Satanta Loc: N.C.

Because mine is so much better.

28 quarts of pickles over the last two days and five half-pints Ketchup.

Added to the stuff she and I have done over the Summer. ;)

This pic is an hour old.

jonsund Loc: Currently: Florida, USA

Looks like a feast waiting to be consumed.

blueeyes3515 Loc: WV

Nice photo and I bet the pickles and ketchup are awesone!! UMMMM

Sher Loc: Colorful Colorado

Love the light bursting thru

DRON Loc: CHICAGO

Organic, delicious and a nice photo to boot.

btrflyangel357 Loc: Dongola, Illinois

I remember doing the very same thing with my mother all summer and fall, and nothing tastes any better.

howie Loc: Jersey Shore

There is nothing like opening a can of fruit cocktail and getting that flavor of tin syrup...yummm, nice pic, reminds me of my grandparents when I was a kid

Mudshark Loc: Illinois

Normally we don't share the following with city folk...we like them to feel comfortable with their special lifestyles. They always ask what us country bumkins do out there in fly-over land. You don't have any entertainment or department stores, etc. But since we are just among fellow photographers here...we spend a great deal of our time hunting and gathering...we fish and freeze fillets, we hunt and freeze venison, rabbit, quail, etc. and sometimes can the meat in jars just like those pickles, we sometimes churn our own butter, we sometimes grind our own flour and make all sorts of bake goods, we raise enormous gardens and can or freeze everything from pickles to kale to sweet corn to tomatoes. We still go to the store and buy groceries but not on the scale city folk do...we know where our food comes from, it is superior on all counts and we love being part of the land we love...

DRON Loc: CHICAGO

I was born and raised in Chicago. When I was a child I went to visit my aunt and uncle on their farm, literally a homestead, in Minnesota. I remember eating vegetables from their garden, eggs from their hens, fish from their lake, chickens (from the coup to the pot as soon as they were dressed), beef from their steers, rabbits and venison from their freezer, milk from their cows – everything super-fresh, no chemicals, no preservatives, no poisons. It was the most delicious food I ever had. I know now it was also the healthiest food I ever had.

We sophisticated city folks can spend a ton of money on organic produce from Garden Fresh and the like. That produce is not nearly as good as what you farm folks have.

Working the land and being part of the land is a spiritual experience that most city folks don’t know about. I had a touch of that during my vacations on the farm, helping with the farm chores, and just being there. Looking up into the sky on a clear night and seeing thousands of stars, (not just the 5 or 10 we see in Chicago) was a spiritual experience.

Farmers know, and some city folk need to be reminded, that agriculture is the backbone of civilization, without which everything collapses.

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

Wow!
Yanno? I actually MISS putting up my own food like this.
Great photo of a really great "labor of love!"

tilde531 Loc: Seaford Delaware

It certainly IS!
There is nothing more spiritually rewarding than living an honestly natural, simple life. Even the work is more rewarding... and certainly the myriad of other benefits garnered from living thus, is priceless. No money can buy it.

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

:thumbup: :thumbup:

William Loc: Mississippi

Hey, what's it tasting like ... we do not know???????????

William Loc: Mississippi

Nobody makes ketchup like Heinz around here.

Val Loc: Minnesota

Your wife is a lucky woman!