Grapes

Hours planting: 0

Hours weeding: 0 (Don did weed once, but it wasn’t for an hour.)

Hours tending: 0 (I think. Don, did you tend?)

Hours picking: 1 (two people together)

Hours washing and stemming: 1 (times two people again)

Hours cooking, squishing, squeezing, draining, straining, canning and sweating: 4
(These 4 hours: all Don. I washed up pans, dishes, utensils, whoohoo.)

Quarts of grape juice: 13

Jars of grape jelly to come: 150 (hours expected to make the jelly: 4?)

We won’t eat enough toast or peanut butter & jelly sandwiches to consume it all ourselves. Want some? We'll gladly give you some.

We might also sell some at our upcoming yard sale in October. What would you pay for a jar of home grown organic homemade grape jelly? At this Web site it’s $5 for a 10 oz. jar. We don’t expect to get rich, but the empty jars cost about $1 each, and sugar and pectin another 50¢ each. We were thinking $3?

Maybe we'll have our first roadside farm stand! If you stick with us, this might turn into a little farm economics lesson.

But in case you were wondering, we’re not in it for the money.