Favorite Canning and Preserving Books There is a lot of beautiful-looking canning and preserving books out there to help inspire you on your preserving journey. But, what books might be a good fit for you? Below I list our favorite canning and preserving books with a brief description of why I like them, what…
8 Canning Tips I Wish I Would Have Known Before Learning to Can So, you want to fill your pantry with homegrown or locally grown foods. You want to stop being so dependent on grocery stores and learn how to store food safely in your pantry with no electricity needed. I am here to…
2022 Preserving Challenge Preserving food is much more than just canning. It includes freezing, dehydrating, pickling, root cellaring, and more. Anything that you can do to store food for your family counts as preserving! That is what this challenge is about. Preserving food! It doesn’t matter if you are a novice or an expert…
What’s Happening on the Farm- A 2021 Year in Review A long time ago I thought that it would be a great idea to share a “What’s been happening on the Farm” post. I sat down to write my first post summarizing how life has been going. Then I had to walk away from…
Preserving food is much more than just canning. It includes freezing, dehydrating, pickling, root cellaring, and more. Anything that you can do to store food for your family counts as preserving! That is what this challenge is about. Preserving food! Now that I have settled that, let’s get on with the 2020 Put “em…
Progress is not always defined by a number. That is what I am reminding myself this year with our preserving. In the past, we had more jars canned and more things froze. We made bigger batches, we spent more time, we stressed more, and stayed up to the wee hours of the morning finishing…
Fresh pesto is one of our most celebrated summer meals! Especially, homemade pesto! We grow rows of basil, so that we can store pesto for the entire year. If that doesn’t speak volumes for how much we love our pesto, I don’t know what does. The first year we moved to our farmhouse, the…
Welcome to the Quickstart Guide to Canning! In this post I would like to provide a crash course on canning. I do not want to complicate the process any more than it has to be. My desire is that this will be a tool that will give a beginner the knowledge to begin…
Orange Marmalade Recipe Orange Marmalade is a great addition to any pantry! Not only is this recipe beautiful and delicious, but it can turn any breakfast toast into a special treat and it makes a great gift that you can hand out on the fly. Or you may just be itching to preserve something…
Well, it may have all started with tomatoes, but you have to do something with all those tomatoes. There are only so many salads and BLT’s you can eat. When we started our first garden I don’t think we really had any idea what we were going to do with what we grew. You…
