Originally Posted by vjengels

I do some canning & freezing; we have a limited garden, tomaotes, zuchini, squash, cucs, peas peppers, In the last two weeks I've baked 24 loaves of zuchini bread, my husband would come home and say 'again?!" or would come in from the garden and say there's a zuchini out there that should be picked pretty soon... No ! I'm percolating that one for bread! He laughs every time! When I'm not doing ours, I'm making the rounds of the neighborhood picking fruit off their trees; It embarrasses my husband when I knock on someone's door and ask if their going to do anything with their peaches, pears, apricots,plums or apples, not me I go home & come back with a ladder & a laundry basket. Free is GOOD. In my neighborhood they don't understand what a bounty they have. always offer some of the processed fruit to them for their generosity, but really mostly they just let it rot on the ground.
My motto is: 'what would the pioneers do?' I believe they would pick it & process it.