A kind neighbor offered up a tree full of plums ripe for the picking, from which I was able to procure two and a half gallons of delicious plums weighing in at about seventeen pounds.
Not knowing exactly how I planned to preserve the harvest, I googled something like "how to preserve plums." Surprisingly, the sixth result was a
video from Wardeh (an author, homesteader, and little-of-everything woman that I admire) of
GNOWFGLINS (a site and blog that I regularly frequent).