Synergy and Abundance Getting pickled with some good women

rebecca's basket

pickled cherry toms

Four fine women gathered to share the surplus of their gardens and knowledge of ways to use it.

Colleen was a flurry  chopping a huge zucchini mixed with onions, peppers and tomatoes and setting to brine for two hours.


Then to the stove simmering the many good things from her over flowing garden.  Karen had been volunteered to teach us and brought her knowledge, canning supplies, and garden goodies.   She had the secret of refrigerator pickles.

The morning moved quickly timed perfectly, while we waited for one thing to brine or cool we started on another.  I had the least knowledge in the group but brought a recipe for pickling cherry tomatoes and a huge bowl of the sweet little red beauties.  I had also wanted to ferment Moroccan Lemons for many months and finally got the chance.  Rebecca, another powerhouse of a woman set to mashing while I cut and salted.  After a month of brining we will each get to sample them. 

  We  left with beautiful bottles of relish, tomatoes, pickles and lemons.  We shared extra veggies and canning supplies and the beauty of bringing something to the pot and all leaving with so much more than we came with.

refrigerator pickles

Karen's hands, Colleen and Rebecca