Enjoying the Seasons of Mattamuskeet

Whatever the season, Keith and I have learned to participate in it. When it's moose season you hunt moose. When peaches are ripe you harvest them. When a hurricane comes and knocks down all the ripe sweet corn in the fields, you harvest and freeze it. I may have grumbled a bit while processing it all because if you look behind me in the house pictures we were still living out of boxes, but the boxes could wait. The corn could not. And in the winter when corn is not readily available I will be thankful that I did all that work while the boxes waited. We have a freezer full and I now I don't have to buy any canned corn for a while. I am not a person that stresses over being all organic but it sure is nice to have fresh, hand picked, hand processed food in my freezer. I am slowly getting back into my "Martha Stewart" groove of jarring and creating my own food. I am still behind on blogging but that is only because it is taking me a while to get everything done. As long as I get my kids schooling done, dinner on the table and taking on the seasons, the blogging will come when it comes.  So bare with me as I am still 3 months behind, I will catch up..... Eventually. But here are some pictures of our little farm life in Mattamuskeet. We are very thankful for friends that share their fruits and harvest with us! Thank you! Here are some of the seasons we have enjoyed while being here in Mattamuskeet.

 After the hurricane a lot of the sweet corn got destroyed. So a co-worker of Keith told us to go harvest what we could. The stuff standing behind us is Maize and is stronger it took on the hurricane better then the sweet corn. But we got a freezer full of sweet corn.

 

 

 One of our harvests, we made a few trips when we had time

 

 Thankfully I had 2 little helpers who helped me shuck a LOT of corn. 

Well one of them ate a lot while Kaden and I shucked, but it was fun.

  My 2 boys who NEVER liked corn before gobbled up the fresh sweet stuff!

 Processing corn while trying NOT to think of all the unpacking I needed to do

 We also got to blueberry pick at a friends farm. I have NEVER SEEN so many blueberries! I got about a gallon from ONE bush.

 

 

 I sent Isaiah to his own bush because I knew most of his ended up in his mouth, but that was OK with me!

 Yep in his mouth!

Another season we are in is Crabbing season.  Mattamuskeet NWR has some of the biggest Blue crabs on the East Coast. People drive hours to come crab here and we can do it out our front door. Our boys were super excited when we became residents of North Carolina and were able to go crabbing. They are quite the pros now and can crack and eat them with the best. Here is our first crabbing expedition. I was sitting on the front porch enjoying the view.

 

 Isaiah caught the first one followed closely by his brother. I don't have a picture of Kaden because I took videos of his catch.

 Here are the boys with their first crab catch.

 Daddy, even though allergic to them, was the only one who knew how to cook them. So he cleaned and cooked them.

 Then the boys and I enjoyed eating them

 YUMMY