How to Freeze Kale Without Blanching 

I appreciate that you show how to use less than perfect produce. That's realistic and it's what we all have in our gardens. 🦋 Michele

Stems are amazing for smooth soups in soup maker. I actually prep and freeze them for this purpose - the fibre makes for a hearty soup that makes me feel fuller for longer

When I was freezing peaches, I didn't want to blanch them. I found an old recipe that said to soak them in a salt solution and then rinse them off and the salt stops the enzymes that turn them brown(that is also the purpose of the blanching 😏). It totally worked too! My peaches never turned brown in the freezer. I'm sure that salt bath for the bugs is working double duty 🤗

I cover my kale with tulle fabric and this keeps the moths off of my kale. It is a bit of a hassle uncovering and recovering it but to me worth it.

I just found your videos. You are great! I love your information and your sweet personality! Keep sharing, TY! Rhonda

You are such a good teacher!!! Thank you for this great video!❤️

Thank you for the class🙌❤️

Thank you so much fir this video, I have been looking at my kale, wondering how to keep some fir winter. Love from the U.K. ❤️

Totally agree with your comments on spraying etc. I have home remedies for aphids etc. sunflower oil/washing up liquid/water seems to work but my philosophy is "if the bugs are eating them it's safe for me to eat them"

That looks good. I don;t care if my greens have a little bit of damage. Still perfectly good to use.

Thank you for this video as I have so much kale and going to do this

Hi there! Thank you for this video. I want to preserve my Swiss Chard and different types of Asian greens without removing the stems. I love to sauté these types of greens so my question is. After I’ve gone through your method of freezing them, when it comes time to use them, do I need to defrost them first? Thank again for this terrific video!

I don't know how big is your garden but I use to have lots of cabbage worms in my kale patch which I was plucking by hand and dropping them in a little container with soapy water but those little white butterflies were coming back all the time as they smell them from far.. My patch of kale is about 4' x 6' or 8' and it is plenty for us (we are only 2). This year I put high loops with a fine garden net on top and it did the job. I still check them in case (and I found a few ones which I got rid of by plucking them but they were on one plant only and I caught them on time). With that net, I have beautiful kale that is not eaten through. More for us and less for the cabbage worms :).

My garden kale looks perfect and I don't spray it with any pesticides. Try companion planting to avoid pests + using an olla for watering = perfect kale and collards.

Stems good for juicing

This is what im looking for as I prefer not to do the blanching mrthod thanks very much!!

PS. Your kitty is darling! 🐱

Thank you for this wonderful video. I have a question that I hope you can answer. Can I follow the same method with other leafy vegetables? Arugula... lettuce... parsley... coriander... mint... I have a lot of them and I was thinking about freezing them to use later in preparing green smoothies.

I live in northern Ontario and grow my kale in my small greenhouse, my kale and lettuce and Swiss chard are perfect and never once needed to spray ….🧐

I learn something new every time, thank you. And now I will be braver about eating leaves with holes in it, instead of giving them to the chickens. Do you chop and freeze the stems without blanching too?

Hi there, i have a question...will the Kale turn Black in color because you didn't blanche it? Thank You for this video...Much Love and Be Well🕊🕊💛💛

Hi there! Great to see you! Question, the basket that you were using. Where did you get it? I could really use one. I heard that you can kale. Do you can collards as well? Thank you. Take care.

Hey 👋 so how come you don't put it right in the bag and into the freezer after chopping? Thanks alot!

I put netting over my plants and it completey protected them from insects and cabbage worms with no spraying required.

Do you cut out the center stem?

Can you do this with other greens, mustard, collards etc?

Is this Kale or Collards?

How about Backing soda? For the bugs. Thank you for this video!!! I was looking for way to freeze them with out killing the enzymes.

got a video for swiss chard?

Os she fr talking this much!? 😂