Ready or not, here it comes. Our first big arctic blast of negative zero and single digits arrived this week and thankfully, we’re as ready as we can be. This is typical winter weather for us, so preparing for it is on our radar…usually about September. However, one often overlooked (and very important) piece […]
Canning Carrots
Carrots are so simple to preserve, when you can them! Just peel, snip off the ends and chop however you like, wash and they are ready to go. Give your livestock a treat with the peels and trimmings=no waste. We’ve canned our homegrown carrots and we’ve canned organic store bought. […]
Pressure Canning–It’ simple. Promise.
It’s canning season! Truth be told, canning season goes year ’round, around here. Canning isn’t just all jam and applesauce. Canning is chili at the ready for a quick dinner, chicken soup in seconds for sick loved ones, simple–delicious food ready to go during grid down situations and natural (or almost any!) disaster. Canning […]
Homemade Blackberry Jam
This is such a great recipe and I love how the labels turned out. If you like them, I shared the link for both wide mouth & regular lids at the end of this post, feel free to download them. Blackberries signify the end of summer in our neck of the woods. It is […]
Canning101: Preserving the Bounty: Apricots
I thought I’d share a post I did for Melissa over at Pioneering Today–click over and pick up your free ‘Canning Syrup Chart’ and say “HI”! The first canning I ever did was Apricots. It was a fantastic introduction. Quick. Easy. Not to mention it yielded great results and a huge smile from […]
Canning Cherries
Summertime. That means Cherries! Everyone in the family LOVES them, they are simple to put up and…everyone can help! Until our tree starts producing (we got our first cherry this year!) we buy local and in bulk. As I mentioned, everyone loves them fresh–so that is where the majority go–a true summer treat! (Freeze […]
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