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...]
A Time And Motion Study Of Strawberries
July 13, 2011 by · 12 Comments
The ol’ homestead is not yet up to growing all the strawberries my family will eat in a year. We used to have an enormous berry patch and could barely keep up on the harvest, but these days we have one main berry bed that’s situated in far too shady a spot for berries. There [Continue Reading...]
Support The Overthrow Of Consumerism For Only $25
June 2, 2011 by · 8 Comments
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...]
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