A living almanac of seasons, soil, and the quiet knowledge that used to be common. Rust axum with minijinja and Vite.
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2season: early-fall
3section: putting up
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6- apples come in waves now. sauce, butter, dried rings, cider, vinegar. early apples for sauce, late ones for keeping.
7- pears can in light syrup. or cook to butter. or slice and dry on screens.
8- muscadines arrive in late august and run ten weeks. jelly, juice, and the hulls go in the freezer for winter pies.
9- pawpaws drop from late august through september. scoop the pulp, freeze it, eat within a year. they do not keep on the counter.
10- sweet potatoes need curing. four to seven days at eighty-five degrees and ninety percent humidity sets the skin and turns starch to sugar. then store at fifty-five to sixty. below fifty-four they get cold-stung and never come back.
11- winter squash cures five to ten days at eighty to eighty-five degrees, then keeps at fifty to fifty-five in dry air. wipe each one with diluted vinegar before storing to slow rot.
12- cabbage to kraut. two percent salt by weight, packed under its own brine, fermented three to six weeks at sixty to seventy degrees.
13- the second fig crop comes in. jam the rest before frost.
14- green tomatoes at first frost. chow-chow, chutney, fried.
15- black walnuts and pecans start dropping in late september. hull within two weeks or the husks stain everything they touch.