Six preserving methods for citrus - permaculture living non-monetised

Meg takes us through all the ways we extend the life of citrus abundance.

[@segolenemioni2919]

Hi from France Artist as Family ! What a pleasure to see you more often these days ! We're glad to share with you another tip to keep limes. I've learned it by an iranian friend during my art studies. It is a condiment used in Iranian cookery, espacially in typical stews with celery (the branch one). You can't do easier : we dry whole limes in the open air on raks. When they become black and they ring empty, it's done. To cook it, you just have to pierce them with the tip of a knife and add to your stew or soup. The taste is absolutely unique, so hard to describe with words. Thank you for all your work, here the spring is just starding, but we already harvest thanks your work. Knowledge nourishing our spirit, make our homestead richer ! With all our gratefulness. A neo Indian family in a place.

[@artistasfamily]

Thanks so much for this suggestion. Much gratitude and love from chilly autumnal Djaara mother country

[@missingnumbr]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge! This year I am making small and slow solutions to divest and downshift so I can be in solidarity with you all my dear friends. Thank you Meg for sharing your wisdom.

[@ericmccann21]

Love these videos and hearing what you all are getting up in your corner of the world

[@kendallgreenewalt5936]

Whew! I hope you didn't have any scrapes on your fingers!! What a lovely idea.

[@emanzahran2772]

Thank you for all the information inside the video, and like to mention that in Morocco and here in Egypt we stuff the lemon with salt nigella and safflower to give it the yellowish color and a fantastic flavor give it a try lovely 🙏🙏💝💝⚘⚘⚘

[@unforkyours3lf730]

I love your videos

[@tillykelp9744]

Good to see someone else using masking tape for labelling. Great presentation,

[@nicoleglover1992]

Thanks for the reminder about drying and grinding orange peel. This is something I've not done, but will do!

[@kennyloggins961]

A lovely video. Good morning from a very wet England

[@donnalivermore591]

Great vid. Love all the ideas, especially lemons preserved in honey!

[@wildwoman8494]

Awesome. I do all the same things. Magical citrus. Blessed be.

[@KelliChristineCase]

I love you guys so much. Thanks for modeling sanity 💜

[@projectfour]

Love your preserving food videos 💚

[@johnartuso4988]

Love citrus & your videos, ground dried citrus is great in our homemade soaps, we also use citrus leaves in tea 🍋

[@katharinemcgee1381]

My neighbour has a lemon tree and gifts us kilos every winter. We use them, share them and and freeze the juice for when they are out of season. I have tried preserving them before following a recipe and not been successful. I'll give your method of preserving the limes a go with his lemons. I'll also dehydrate some for teas. Thank you for some great suggestions and advice.

[@clareklesel1978]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I now dry our satsuma peel and grind it for flavouring after your recommendation. Will have to try this too! So inspiring! ☺️

[@ashleywilliams4149]

Thank you so much for this. I've always wondered what fermented citrus with salt would taste like and what I could do with it.

[@az55544]

Excellent rubber band trick, thank you! I love diced fermented lemon on cheese toast and in guacamole. I find the white bit of citrus to be bitter so I'm wondering if you ever dehydrate just the rind, not the whole peel. This bitterness has kept me from using dehydrated orange slices when I've made them.

[@ellenschindler4764]

bitter pith is incredibly healthy so it pays to eat/nibble more and more of it to get your taste buds used to its taste. many of us have done this with many other foods like coffee, black tea, olives, onions etc

[@az55544]

@@ellenschindler4764 so true and i do so when i eat fresh citrus! thanks for the reminder.

[@countrymousesfarmhouse497]

We already make citrus vinegar for cleaning from our scraps ,which i love to use. I really should try some for salad dressings . Would you put the peels in your own apple scrap vinegar for that ? And leave for 2 weeks like i do the cleaning one ? When you dehydrated the orange peel to make powder are you removing most of the pith? Fantastic video again🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@nikkineal6431]

I really enjoy your videos. Do you or anyone else have recommendations of more KZbin channels that post videos like Artist as Family?

[@ellenschindler4764]

I watch Homesteading Family. A large family in North Idaho. They have been putting preserving videos out from mir many years and in the last three years also gardening videos. they now also started to sell really good online classes, I bought two of them and am very happy.

[@sharaharper2253]

Simple Living Alaska have a lot of preserving style videos and gardening as well

[@truthforall1303]

Hi I was looking for a video of you preserving tomatoes do you have one. ? Mandy UK homesteading

[@BikramNZ]

Ive just made my first batch following your instruction! Thankyou. Question re sealing with a lid? Once the jar and rubber bands are in place there seems to be a gap between the smaller "pressing" jar and the larger one, is that ok for the juice to be exposed like that?? Thanks

[@artistasfamily]

Yes, so long as all the solids are under the liquid all will be fine. Good luck!

[@asperrett]

When you dehydrate the orange peels, do you remove the pith or leave it?

[@artistasfamily]

We eat most of the pith with the fruit flesh as it is also a good source of vitamin C and fibre, what pith remains on the underside of the peel becomes part of the dried ground food we store. So yes, we leave it.

[@robertocupaniopsisanacardi9458]

Can you describe the taste? (Compared to the original lime, after the fermenting is finished)? Thanks

[@artistasfamily]

Tangy, salty, intense citrusy

[@maryburt3114]

how do you use the limes and lemons after they are fermented. I am vegan so do not use meat.

[@projectfour]

Love your preserving food videos 💚