Sept. 16th, 2024 - Announcement for PRESERVE the HARVEST Presentation & Workshop! CoboconkGardenClub

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Come and join Stefan Dixon and Magali Laville, of WillowsGreenPermaculture, at the Coboconk Garden Club, on Monday September 16th at 6:30 pm, at the Coboconk Service Center/Lion's Hall, 9 Grandy Rd and Hwy 35 (aka The Coboconk Community Center), Ontario. Doors open at 6:30 for social time with presentation at 7 pm. We will show you the many ways you can preserve your harvest through drying, freezing, canning, fermenting, pickling, and more. You can also learn how to best preserve your seeds so you can grow your harvest with them next year. Check out the last part of the video for some examples of the vegetables and grains we will be covering. If you have a request for preserving a particular vegetable, then let us know ahead of time and it will be our pleasure to make it part of the presentation. And if you’d like to bring along a few of your vegetables for which you’d like some advice for preserving, we will make sure to set aside some time to have an interactive workshop on how you can preserve those vegetables. Entry is free for members of the Coboconk Garden Club, and 5$ for non members.

[@mojavebohemian814]

Thank you

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You’re welcome! Were you at the workshop?

[@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu]

Have fun at the workshop. I'd be there if I were close 🙂

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you!

[@vesiletekas5927]

How do you manage to go through all that vegetables l have a small allotment plot and l just don’t know what to do with all that vegetables l harvested. I have already filled 2 big freezers, preserved and pickled a lot of vegetables….The people around me are not interested either, l think l have to compost the surplus 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ 😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

We eat them. They feed us all year. We use the easiest methods possible for preserving. Check out our playlist about this. Some things don’t require anything, others it’s just a question of drying. We also share the harvest, do barter trades with it, and share it with nature.

[@happyhobbit8450]

Grow what you eat and eat what you grow! I'm experimenting and learning while gardening. As well, I'm continually making new garden beds and propagating the plants I want to eat. Saving seeds and preserving the harvest is my focus right now. I have chickens that I'm growing food for as I would like to stop buying their feed. The chickens are great cultivators just have to contain them which I'm also learning.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@happyhobbit8450 Yes, there is a great deal you can feed your chickens! All the parts of the plants you decide you don't need for the kitchen for this reason or that, they'll gladly eat, I am told anyway. We don't have chickens, so it's not our expertise at all.

[@ssstults999]

I hope the work shop was a great success! Wish I'm able go to one someday 😊

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@ssstults999 thank you so much! Yes it went very well. Lots of people in attendance and lots of questions! It was a lot of fun!