84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 10, 1992 Onbei a farm -And o fIAZAf 1 Joyce B Crisp, bright, sunny days. Chil ly nights streaked with moon beams and shadows. Frosty morn ings with ever-so-light dustings of icy white sprinkled across the lops of the big hay bales stored in the lower fields. It’s the squirrel-ly season. No, not pie-election squirrel iness. This is the real squinel-ly season - as in store it, stash it, stick-it-away. Actually, squirrel-ling things away begins much sooner, like in June. That’s when we stash away in the freezer caches of strawberr ries and raspberries, or boil them up into thick, sweet jellies for spreading with peanut butter into sandwich snacks for milking chores sustenance. Containers of frozen peas, string beans and com add to the layers squirrelled away in the freezer. Meanwhile, the basement shelves sag beneath the weight of quarts of thick, reddish, tomato sauce and dark, sweet grape juice. Squirrel-Iy season picks up as the evening light fades earlier and coolness settles in well ahead of the sunset And the neighborhood potato havest swings into high gear. Though I painted nary of pota to, there are more squirrelled away in the ground cellar than usual this year. Our good neighbors are generous in sharing their bounty. Plus, a couple of undergound stores of potatoes still lie buried in the garden, where volunteers undug from the previous season F/giliFlii AUTOMATIC HEADGATE Full Roof Cover Heav y Dut y Latch For Outdoor For Positive. Locking PAUL B. ZIMMERMAN, INC. 295 Woodcorner Rd. Call or Write For Lititz, pa 17543 Additional Information 1 Mil* West of Ephrata And Your Nearest Dealer Phone: 717-738-7365 sprouted and raised their own families of offspring spuds. When cold weather wilts and lush volunteer grass, I’ll go a’diggin with my garden spade some sunny fall afternoon and unearth the waiting treasure. Also squirreled away is a fait of pale-colored tomatoes. The harvest of Long Keepers is my best yet of this storage tomato, though the yield still has plenty of room for improvement. Cool nights and cloudy days cut into potential larger pickings of stor age tomatoes. The stash of yellow, plus a few red, onions stored on the basement porch is diminishing rapidly. Per iodic checking has turned up the softies that were not keeping and allowed for pitching them before they ruined the rest of the batch. Squirreling the garden havest away has always been a particular source of personal satisfaction - especially come mid-winter when the supply of fresh, canned and frozen homegrowns becomes doubly precious. But, years ago, “putting by” food supplies was not a pleasurable hobby but a necessi ty if the family intended to eat through the winter months. The potatoes, the carrots, the turnips, the pumpkins carefully stored from Fall’s bounty pro vided diet mainstays of “fresh” food for the next half-year. No expansive and colorful super market produce section awaited to replace cabbages rotted in storage or a barrel of apples gone mushy by early February. Broccoli year-round unheard of (broccoli was almost unheard of, period), and lettuce and tomatoes were delicacies to be enjoyed in season only. Grapes and melons shipped halfway around the world to be eaten as the snow fell was science fiction-stuff to our grand parents, who were thrilled if they received a single orange on Christmas morning. Because I can “squirrel” food away as I choose, and not because my family’s life depends on it, makes my strong away of potatoes and turnips and onions and apples an enjoyable pleasure, rather than a burdensome chore. And, if I get too busy with other matters, stashing away cuttings of geranimums and impatiens and snapdragons and potting fall bulbs for the greenhouse, we’ll still have plenty to eat anyway. Sometimes, I forget to remem ber just how awesome a blessing that is. 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