Our Labor Day Labors

We went to my parents house for Labor Day. Phase one, after the early corn, is full on in their garden so we all pitched in and helped to bag some of it while we were there. Here is a little documentation of the process.

1. Picking the corn was hazardous at times as you didn't know when the corn would come flying out of the rows. (Heads up!)
2. Husking the corn.
3. Transportation from the garden to the house, Afton brought some corn with her in the wheelbarrow.
4. Cleaning the corn was the grunt work in this process especially for someone who hates the feel of the little hairs all wet on your hands and you can't seem to get them off.
5. Transportation from the back sink to the stove. Not everyone is cut out for this job you know!
6. The corn cobs were steamed then placed in ice water to cool
7. Cutting the corn off the cob. It took great skill to work with such a delicate instrument as this electric knife. Dad's fish filleting skills paid off though.
8. The corn was then measured and put into freezer bags, but not before it went through some degree of quality control. The girls often made sure it met the highest standard of sweetness before it went on to be labeled.
9. Khora was amazing at taking the ziplock bags out of the box for us!

All told we did over 50 Quarts of corn that afternoon. Not too bad! Now you know what kind of effort it takes to enjoy that home grown goodness all winter long!