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It really is quite uncanny! Getting things for free is a great zero waste activity, as is giving or donating things yourself.

My friend Pam has dubbed me the “Queen of Free.” I don’t know why, but I seem to always happen to run across wonderful free items, either from my local “ Buy Nothing” group, other groups on Facebook, a neighbor, or out in the wild along the side of the ride. It is important to consult safe canning resources, which are listed at the end of this post.

Italian Plum trees should be pruned annually to bear better fruit.Please note, this post is meant as an overview of canning and dehydrating plums and does not replace or represent itself to be an official guide for proper canning at home. It is considered an easy tree to get established and can begin bearing fruit from between three to six years. These fruit trees need full sun, and they are self-pollinating. Plums are a good source of fiber and contain potassium and vitamins A, C, and K. Enjoy making a wide variety of dishes using these plums, from plum sorbet to roasting with pork or lamb. With their high sugar content, they are enjoyable to eat fresh, use for cooking, or drying into prunes. Italian plums are perfect for making juice and jams. The yellow flesh turns a rich, dark pink when cooked.

Italian Plums are prized in German cooking, where they are used to make plum cake, dumplings, and tarts. Their fruit is firmer than most other plums, making them perfect to use in cooking. Italian Plums are freestone, meaning they are easy to remove from the pit. Plums ripen in late summer to fall, typically August or September. This lovely fruit tree features a spring bloom of showy pinkish white blossoms. Its flesh is a semi-firm, golden yellow and has a rich blend of sweetness with a lemon-tart edge that sets it apart from the common taste of other plums. This stone fruit has smooth, purple skin with a dusting of powdery blue. It is a European Plum variety, prunus domestica ‘Italian,’ that is popular in home orchards throughout the country. This plant goes by a wide variety of names including Italian Prune, Italian Prune Plum, and Fellenberg Plum. The Italian Plum tree is famous worldwide for its reliability in producing an enormous crop of dark purple, medium-sized plums that are high in sugar content and often used for the commercial production of prunes.