Presents from the garden

[curly_kate]

Boy, it's quiet around here! What kind of holiday presents do you plan on giving using stuff you grew this year? Unfortunately, we ate most of what we grew, so I don't have a whole lot left except honey and pickles!

 

[me&thegals]

For all sorts of occasions, I like to give away pumpkin bread, zucchini bread, many types of jams and jellies, applesauce and salsa. It's fun to always have something on hand

 

[vfem]

Yeah we ate most of what we grew too! Yet, I am giving seeds! I collected so many seeds this year, I was selling them on craigslist to get rid of them. I only needed a few myself.

I did find out my brother-in-law and sister-in-law just got into gardening and rented a nice house with a huge yard. My mother-in-law is giving them flower pots and stuff to help get them going with their huge plans, so I'm going to send like 15 packets of seeds to get them going.

I do still have 2 jars of Muscadine jelly left, but my daughter just eats that up... so it will probably only last us until spring anyways Can't give away a kid's favorites.

 

[katz]

Jam's like Pumpkin spice nut, Blackberry,Red Plum and Cinnamon Pear's .

 

[thedeacon]

Gave mother-in-law
1 qt jar: , tomato juice, whole tomatoes, apple pie filling, peaches, dill pickles

1pt jar: apple sauce, salsa, apple jelly

1 large sweet potato

also got rid of a large wicker basket to carry it all in.

 

[rockytopsis]

Each of the daughters got a wicker basket with tomato juice, tomato sauce, green beans, corn, strawberry jam, grape jelly, all from the garden and from the turkey shoot city ham, bacon, and bologna.

 

[simple life]

I gave all of the children's teachers a gift basket with homemade goodies in them this year.
I included various jams and spreads that I made, along with some biscotti and a jar of honey from reinbeau's hives.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I gave my folks and aunt stuff I canned. Greenbeans, jams, pickles, chicken. They are diabetic and I was able to make everything without adding sugar for them.

 

[Grow 4 Food]

We actually planned ahead enought to put strawberry freezer jam in fancy jars to give away for xmas presents. Good - Cheap - Everyone loves it!

 

[keljonma]

We always plant and can extra for gifts. The one year I didn't, everyone asked why not?

This past holiday baskets included
grape juice - concords from a neighbor's farm
apple pie filling - variety of apples from a local farm
canned peaches - peaches from a local Amish farm
peach butter - peaches from a local Amish farm
peach syrup- peaches from a local Amish farm
dried blueberries - blueberries from our farm & another local farm
canned blueberries - blueberries from our farm & another local farm
green tomato chutney - our farm tomatoes
plum butter - plums from a neighbor's farm
strawberry jam - strawberries from our farm & another local farm
homemade pumpkin bread - our farm pumpkins
homemade zucchini bread - our farm zucchinis
dried basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, dill - our farm herbs
dozen eggs - our farm eggs