Community Peach Canning Day

When I was growing up, doing peaches was a family affair. Once a year, we would go pick up the peaches and that night we would all sit around and do them up. All helped including my Dad and even the littlest helper. We would set up an assembly line-blancher, fruit cutters, canner. Even though we all worked hard, we all enjoyed it. We became very efficient and the five of us could kick out 2 bushel of peaches in a long nights time.

A couple of years ago, we restarted this tradition. We started small and have kept building over the past couple of years. Tomorrow, for the first time, we have invited friends to join us. We will go to church and then head to my sister's house. We will eat a community meal and then all take our places in the assembly line. When we are done, we will have canned peaches and pie filling. We will have reserved enough leftover peaches to make jam and salsa later on. Looking forward to tomorrow.