I feel like all I do is can food. I am not one of those who are addicted to canning. I do it out of necessity. When you're off-grid there aren't a lot of easy food preservation techniques out there. Really, the only easy food preservation is freezing. Not an option around here. Dehydration is an option but only solar dehydration. I HAVE a Nesco Gardenmaster dehydrater, which works super awesome, but I can't use it here! It draws 1 kW of power! Too much for my little off-grid system at this point. When I get my big system set up it could probably run it but do I want to? Maybe for dehydrating meats ..
Anyway, I have been canning apples and tomatoes (Picked two 5 gal bucket fulls of green tomatoes the day before a freeze) primarily; some pumpkin but I have a great deal more to do! Still have a number of ducks to butcher and can. I'm hoping once I've waded through the gobs of fruit, pears are next, I'll be able to do poultry.
In the garden, I've got spinach growing as well as some brassica hold-overs and I've commenced garlic planting. I plant a huge amount of garlic because we use it for deworming livestock. I started by putting a layer of rabbit manure on the garlic bed first and this year I'm giving each individual plant quite a bit more room; I planted way too densely last year.
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