Homemade Applesauce: A Bucket List Item Completed
I’m late to the practice of canning my own food. My curiosities always push me forward to try new things—and making things and giving them away is one of my love languages.
So the fact that I’ve never canned my own food has always perplexed me.
I finally discovered why: I was afraid. What if I didn’t do it right and someone got sick? Oof—that’s a lot of responsibility.
My apple tree flourished this year—so full of fruit that the branches bent low and heavy. There was no way to ignore them, and I certainly couldn’t eat them all. It seemed so wasteful. It was as if my tree pleaded with me, “C’mon already! You’ve got this!”