A Picture From College

I got a picture message on my phone from DS2.  He's the one in college 500 miles away.  It was another moment that makes a homesteading mother proud to know that what she 'dragged her children through' wasn't so torturous after all, and stuck with them in a positive way.

Here's the picture:



Here's the message:

"Don't you wish you had some apple butter?"

Here's the story:

DS2 and some of his fellow students had noticed an abundance of apple trees along the running/walking/hiking trails maintained by their college.  Apple trees with apples that were just falling off and going to waste.  So, a group of 10-12 students got together and picked a bunch of apples one day.  Then they took the apples back to the dorm.

Now, each floor of the dorm he's in has a kitchenette.  This group of students decided to make use of one of the kitchenettes in their endeavor to do something useful with their frugally procured apples.  So, they started coring and peeling the apples.   When they were done, they had made: two deep dish apple pies, an apple crisp, some applesauce, and a batch of apple butter large enough that each student in the group got to keep one jar.

DS2 says that their next task will be to bake some bread to use the apple butter on.

Homesteading goes to college!  :0)

(humorous note: notice the jar of apple butter is sitting on an open differential equations textbook.  Even future engineers like homemade goods!)