Day 4...Fridge Full!

On the way home from our visit we managed to find quite a few produce stands and markets with farm grown produce. Organic? Not so much.

Standing amongst the vast array of colors and smelling the sweet peaches made it difficult to walk away but had to redirect my train of thought to the non-pesticide track. It is easy to say "Supportin' the local farmer" and purchase bushels of freshness but my taste buds have experienced what a fresh, organic tomato can taste like and they don't want nothin' else (and I didn't even like tomatoes so much before)!

After three (?) stops we finally found a great produce market in Manchester. The woman working was very helpful and pointed out the items she KNEW were grown organically and those she was semi-sure...so we tried a few blueberries and decided that the taste and texture was so different than any we had eaten before that they had to be grown in suitable conditions...right? The car drove off en route to the homestead with enough blueberries to freeze and and eat, sweet potatoes, beans, lettuce (yay) and a bunch of peaches (a whole bunch of peaches).
The majority of the night was then used to find out how to can peaches (I will need to get more), freeze blueberries (I now know that all berries and most fruit can be cut, single layered on a cookie sheet, put in the freezer overnight, then bagged) cook up eggplant I bought the other day, how to store potatoes when living in a condo (anyone?), and re-found the blanching times for beans, peppers, and squash. Oh! I almost forgot to mention I bought a bag of beets so my next quest will be to find a recipe and find out if we even like them!
All this and I managed to throw together a 100 mile salad!