The Urban Farmer’s Almanac

We recently arranged to purchase half a pig from a local farm.  We’ve been wanting to buy meat like this for awhile and finally pulled the trigger (although not literally – we’re paying someone else to do that part).  This has necessitated clearing out the basement freezer to make room for a large quantity of meat that will be coming our way next month,  We had a couple of bags of rhubarb from last year’s crop that I just chopped and froze.  When the rhubarb was ready for harvest we had  a lot of jam (grape, strawberry, plum and blueberry), chutney (plum) and pie filling (apple) already processed and in our stockpile of canned goods.  Because of this I was at a loss for ideas for the rhubarb, which just ended up being frozen for later use.  “Later use” had arrived and I was still at a loss for ideas.  I ended up making a simple cobbler.  It tasted great, but had a little more green then I would have liked.  (Note the similarities between my dessert and slime).  I guess that is why strawberries are usually used with rhubarb. It did the trick though and  now we are one bag closer to an empty freezer for our coming pig.

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