We have been busy putting up plums, apples, pears and peaches. We have put up at least 18 5 gallon buckets so far. The green and red plums made great jellies and fruit leather. 20 pints of apple butter, apples in the dehydrator now, along with one rack of pears. We used the apple peeler and core to peel and core the pears. I've never dried them before, so we figured to try and see what they would do.
My only problem is, my wife mentioned to a customer at the restaurant we were making jelly. Can I buy some?, turned into almost a business in itself. She has sold 18 jars of plum jelly at $13 a pint, and 20 jars of apple butter at $15. We used the money to buy more jars and a new SS juicer to try out.
We have 34 batches of juice for jelly in the freezer all ready with 6 more 5 gallon buckets on the table.