life on garden time
How’s your larder looking? Mine is pretty spartan. This is a great time of year to assess your larder and see what you’ve eaten tons of and what hasn’t been a hit. If you make some notes now about what your family really eats, before the furor of canning season comes upon us, there’s a good chance [Continue Reading...]
Last week, just in time for a massive can-o-thon over the weekend, I followed a Facebook recommendation to some fantastic, customizable canning jar labels on Etsy. I’d link to them, but my aging memory and the fast pace of digital life don’t always play nice, so I’ve completely forgotten where I saw them. The neat thing [Continue Reading...]
Juice of two lemons To ensure a proper set I feel every cut. “Can’t finish the peach. The juice runs sticky, too far down my elbow, mom.” My apricots float They will do it every time Maybe more syrup? (big thanks to Harriet Fasenfest for this one) Met the orchard man Blushing fruit, picked by [Continue Reading...]
Most beginner food preservers (and I count myself as an advanced beginner) start with the standard issue water bath canner. It’s usually blue or green with funny speckles on it and can be found pretty cheaply new or really cheaply used. My ginormous canning kettle came from the thrift store and cost, as I recall, [Continue Reading...]
That title sounds facetious but I’m actually dead serious. Somebody has to get out there and stump for Harriet Fasenfest’s excellent DVD, Preserving with Friends, because she just won’t do it for herself. Harriet, whom you may know as the author of The Householder’s Guide to the Universe, is a contrarian urban agrarian, householder and [Continue Reading...]
I’m thrilled to announce the winner of my very first giveaway. Congratulations to BePartial, winner of Canning For A New Generation. In a very kind comment to enter my giveaway post, BePartial asked for more videos. By total random coincidence (I swear!) I was already making a video to show the drawing for the winner of this [Continue Reading...]
As I was sitting down to compose a post for today I realized that it would be my hundredth post! I just started this blog at the beginning of the year, and I’ve been blown away by the support of my readers. So, to say thanks to all my readers who take the time to [Continue Reading...]
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