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Franklin Homestead 🥕Growing fruit & veggies
🫙Food preservation
🫘Learning self sufficiency
🌱Everyone can grow!
📍Thornlands QLD Australia

09/10/2026

Reality is, you'll never catch me doing a "viral dance", or posing with a pout. But being an absolute idiot, extremely likely. Life's too short and too hard to be serious all the time. I don't really get embarrassed anymore. So expect more of this type of ridiculousness! 😂 -Christy

09/10/2026

Rainy days hit differently when you've got a garden. And no longer ooze with coolness.... 🤓 -Christy

08/10/2026

🍅Tomato products are one of the easiest things to can. 🍅
It's a really great gateway into canning if you are a beginner. In part 1, I cover the way that I get my passata started, and then how I do my diced tomatoes from start to finish. 🙌🏻
You don't need any of the fancy equipment that I used, all you need is a pot that's large enough to fully immerse the jars you want to use with water. Yes, you can reuse lug jars that other foods came in from the store just as long as the lid is fully intact without any damage. I'm going to do a video next week explaining how to do this. I think we've got enough information packed into this video already haha!

Below is the diced tomato recipe and method if you want to try this at home.

DICED TOMATOES
- Dice your tomatoes, frozen or fresh, and shove them into jars as tightly as possible
- Add 1/4 tsp citric acid & 1/2 tsp salt to each 500ml jar
- water bath can for 85mins for 500ml jars
And that's it!!
Please get in touch if you've got any questions. But hopefully I cover everything else for you in part 2 and 8n my canning info video to come.
-Christy

06/10/2026

Good tomato knife has been secured. 🍅 Do you have yours yet? Or perhaps you're not up to this stage of life yet? 😂 In that case, your time will come. -Christy

05/10/2026

Clara's Corner - Episode 4 🥕🥕
We needed to thin out our carrots in the garden, and we had a huge pile of teeny tiny carrots. Clara wanted to keep them for her dolls, so we decided to make a cute little video in the dollhouse. She does the cutest voiceover, doesn't she?
-Clara & Christy

03/10/2026

Should I start a bloopers series? Cause there's always plentyyyyy of bloopers. 😂
-Christy

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