Juice haul

Here is the basic set up for mass producing juice from free Saddlebrooke oranges.  I slice, Dave juices with the electric juicer, and when his container is full he pours the juice into the strainer.  Keeps out the wayward seeds.

Then I funnel juice into our recycled milk jugs.  Since we can't drink all this juice at once, we freeze some of the jugs.

We started out with four bags of oranges that looked like this.  We juiced three bags to get the 2 1/4 gallons or so of juice.  There are no photos of making contacts with neighbors who don't want their oranges, or the small amount of labor involved with picking hundreds of oranges.  The juicing is the fun part.  Finding the source for getting the fruit is more tricky.  But just driving around here you see so much fruit not being eaten, it's hard to see.

The good news is our baby orange tree that we planted last year has about 60 blossoms.  Hopefully upon our return next year we'll have some of our own oranges!