Organizing Freezers - December 6, 2019 @goldenoakfarm
My husband got the old haddock and his pollock ground early, cleaned up and headed outside. My helper friend was here on Friday and he and I packaged up almost 2 months of animal protein for the layers.
We will still need a lot more fish to make it until April when the boats go out. My husband still has a couple more weeks he can get out for more fishing. I’m sure he won’t object.
This is what we call the vegetable freezer in the cellar. It gets into an awful mess when people paw through it looking for something. So my helper friend and I went down and reorganized it. I did something I probably should have done at the June 2019 inventory: tossed 2017 vegetables.
I am the only one who eats wax beans and I had dozens of boxes of them from 2017. There was some old cauliflower and I found 3 bags of celery I had frozen for stock making in 2017. I am done stock making and had forgotten they were in there, so out to compost it all went. The hens won’t touch these items.
This freezer at the barn is a sort of overflow and things not used much freezer. It also hasn’t been defrosted in a couple years. So the goal is to move the overflow into the appropriate freezers, try yet again to get rid of the excess chicken carcasses in the white bags, and get it emptied. In the spring, hopefully after the floor is poured in the cellar, it can be finally emptied, moved to the house and cleaned thoroughly.
We made a good start on it, got 1 cubby emptied and a basket. It all went into the vegetable freezer. It will be nice to be able to find things easily again in the vegetable freezer.
By lunch time it had started to snow again and by the time we got back home mid afternoon, we had a couple inches.
Saturday I plan to work on the Christmas Newsletter and get the Christmas cards made. I should finish the Christmas online shopping too, there’s just a little left.
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You must run a lot of freezers? Are they mains powered or do you use some other method to keep them running?
We have 5 freezers, not including the 3 fridge freezers. We have electric solar panels.
Ok, I wondered if you used solar. I have an array also. But figured winter may reduce what the solar harvests? 5 and 3...That's a lot of cold storage and a lot of harvesting to fill them up. Seems like you have it all worked out though. Thanks for clarifying.
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