Figs are in Harvest Getting 2-4 Cups a Day

We planted a fig tree years ago hoping that some day we might get a fig. Now, this tree provides a ton of shade, but in mid-to-late July, it also produces about 4 processed cups of figs a day. And this goes on for at least a month! As the life cycle seasons of this tree goes, it's rather annoying half of the time. The leaves stick to our dog's fur in the fall, it drops rotten figs throughout the late summer and has basically overtaken two Apple trees we planted at the same time. But I do love the figs, and you can't get them from the store in any resemblance of picking them off the tree ripe then hours later putting them on ice cream.

For the most part, we (meaning Deborah) use all our figs to make strawberry-fig jam. Not an easy thing to master, but it's my favorite, and we can make enough to last about a year until the next fig harvest the following season.

Once the figs are ready to be picked, Deborah's job is to pick them, about 2-4 cups at a time (she has a process). My job is to get them cut up, packaged, labeled, and then put into the freezer.

Then at some point in the future, when there is time, Deborah takes the frozen figs and makes them into jam. The recipe she uses calls for 4 cups of fresh processed figs. The reason we make strawberry-fig jam instead of just fig jam is the straight up fig jam is actually too sweet. Figs are a powerhouse of fruit sugars, so mixing it with strawberry seems to be a good middle point.

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