Last weekend our little family had our yearly lemon harvest and squeeze. If my memory serves me, we have harvested the lemons every January or February for the last 6 years.
It takes just a little work and then we have enough juice to make lemonade the rest of the year. In fact, I think we used up the last of last years lemon juice just a few weeks ago.
We used to freeze the lemon juice into cubes and then put the right number of cubes into ziploc bags for making pitchers of lemonade. The freezing of all the cubes was a laborious process. We finally discovered it was somewhat unnecessary. Now we just pour the amount of juice needed for a pitcher of lemonade right into the bag and seal it up. Way less work AND the bags freeze into little flat sheets that are very easily stored in the freezer.
This year Noah and Emily were both good workers. Noah did a lot of the washing of the picked lemons and even some juicing. Emily did a lot of the juicing. We ended up with about 5½ gallons of juice, a good haul.
Here are some pictures from our day (click on any for fullscreen):
Parker observing the work
Emily working the juicer
Noah extracting some juice
Mommy taking her turn
Cole wasn’t sure he liked the grass
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