Canning

It’s an age-old debate, and likely one that you’ve found yourself engaged in with old-fashioned canning enthusiasts and new-age canners alike from time to time. Do you need to sterilize your canning jars? The short answer is… yes, most of the time. But if you’re unsure of whether you need to sterilize – or how,

If you’re a homesteader, you no doubt know the difficulty of storing vegetables, fruits, and meats over the winter months. It’s nearly impossible to grow any sort of produce during cold weather in most states, so it’s necessary to find alternative methods for storing the foods harvested in the early fall. While freezing is a

Are you making these mistakes when you are preserving your food? Avoiding common pitfalls will make your home canned food safer… and potentially avoid someone in your family get sick! Part of the homesteading lifestyle, no matter how large your homestead is, is preserving foods. Things like canning, freezing, dehydrating, or fermentation are all very

Get your canning on in a FUN way by hosting a canning party! Get a group of friends together and share the work. Learn how to get a canning group started. Getting your garden produce can sometimes be a chore. There’s food to clean, chop and prepare, jars to wash, canners to fill with water

Get ready to can your food safely! Here’s the list of essential home canning equipment you NEED, plus where to find it cheaply! When it’s time to start preserving your garden produce, many homesteaders turn to canning. This home food preservation method makes your food shelf and pantry stable, easily stored for a year or

Canning is a great way to save your garden produce. It’s made to be shelf stable, so you can store it on the pantry shelf, saving you plenty of freezer or fridge space. But there are certain mistakes newbie canners make – and this is one of them. No, you shouldn’t use any glass jar

When you are wanting to preserve your garden goodness, there are generally a few ways to accomplish that. You can freeze, dehydrate, can or preserve foods by fermenting. Canning foods requires jars, a water bath or pressure canner, lids, bands and takes a lot of time. Even fruits and jams can take at least an hour

Are home-canned peaches good for you? YES! When you can peaches at home, you can control the amount of sugar in the canning syrup. Canning peaches without sugar can also be done, but the color and consistency of the fruit may change. Keep in mind, sugar is used as a preservative. When peaches come into

Strawberries normally come into season in late spring through early summer. The bright, red jewels are a thing of beauty, to be sure! When those beautiful berries are ready, I save several quarts from going bad by canning strawberry jam. My family can enjoy the fruit in this form all year long. As an added

Making and canning homemade jam is a great way to save the fresh fruits of the season. When Spring and Summer fruits are in season, many of us will reach for our homemade jam recipes for canning to preserve that precious harvest. Not much can beat the flavor of homemade jam spread over a biscuit