Home Canning – Articles Revisited
Home canning is a great way to preserve our harvest. With our gardens cranking away, we’ll want to be prepared to can our bounty so we can enjoy it later on when the harvest season has ended. It’s a great way to be more self-sufficient and better prepared for emergencies when food might not be [...]
Keeping the Harvest Fresh – Let ‘em Take a Dip
If you’re harvesting root vegetables, and you won’t be using them immediately, a good way to keep them fresh is to set them in a bowl of cold water and let them drink up the moisture until you’re ready to use them. Whether it’s onions or beets or carrots, the root/bulb and the tops will [...]
Home Canning – Rhubarb
In the last week of June, Michelle and I picked most of our rhubarb patch, stewed it, and canned it. We’re proud of this, because it’s the first year we’ve handled our rhubarb harvest correctly.
Food Storage – Revisited
It’s Friday again – hooray – and that means it’s time to take another look into our archives to pull together a set of posts that have a similar theme or topic. Our topic for this Friday is food storage. Knowing a thing or two about food storage is an essential skill for the self [...]
The Benefits of Herbal Medicine: Drying Herbs
This is another in the benefits of herbal medicine series. Today, let’s talk about drying herbs. While summer is going strong, herbs tend to grow rather wild. At least in my garden they do. With an abundance of fresh herbs, you may take advantage and use them without reserve for cooking and flavoring your favorite [...]
Additional Canning Hints and Tips
For the last month, our homestead has become “canning central” as we preserve our recent fruit, vegetable, and fish harvests. Recently, we attended a presentation on canning from the Alaska Cooperative Extension Service (like your County Cooperative Extension, except we don’t have counties in Alaska). While initially, we feared it would be too basic, we [...]
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