Farmfresh
City Biddy
I grow some, but in my smallish space I can not keep up with hubbies demand. He could probably eat an ACRE of corn alone! I have grown Northern extra sweet, Bodacious, and good old Peaches and Cream! We buy any extra we need at the Farmers Market by us where everything sold HAS to be grown by the seller!
We do can some of the corn, but by and large we prefer it frozen. I solve the space issues in several ways. First I freeze only corn OFF the cob. That saves a lot of room right there! Next I freeze 2 - 3 cups in each quart size ziplock bag, I squeeze all of the air out and then flatten the bags as flat as possible and freeze them on a cookie sheet. After they are hard I can stand them up in my freezer baskets and flip through them much like files in a filing cabinet! I try to do all my veggies like this when frozen. Uniformity really saves space. Finally we have one big chest freezer (Energy Star) for veggies and fruits (with the occasional baked items) and ANOTHER identical freezer for meats, which we buy a whole animal at a time and I split with my grown children, plus the chickens and turkeys that I raise.
We do can some of the corn, but by and large we prefer it frozen. I solve the space issues in several ways. First I freeze only corn OFF the cob. That saves a lot of room right there! Next I freeze 2 - 3 cups in each quart size ziplock bag, I squeeze all of the air out and then flatten the bags as flat as possible and freeze them on a cookie sheet. After they are hard I can stand them up in my freezer baskets and flip through them much like files in a filing cabinet! I try to do all my veggies like this when frozen. Uniformity really saves space. Finally we have one big chest freezer (Energy Star) for veggies and fruits (with the occasional baked items) and ANOTHER identical freezer for meats, which we buy a whole animal at a time and I split with my grown children, plus the chickens and turkeys that I raise.
