How to Store Vegetables Through the Winter
The garden has frozen over and your table sits heavy with food. Now to learn how to store vegetables so they don’t go bad before you can eat them.
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How Long Does Homemade Jam Last?
Sugar has an important part to play in food preservation methods and in answering the question, how long does homemade jam last. When used in making homemade jam, sugar not
How to Make Jelly from Queen Anne’s Lace
Learn to identify the beautiful wild edible plant Queen Anne’s Lace and how to make jelly from its delicate white flowers.
A Guide to Using Steam Canners
Steam canners have been around since at least the early 1900s, but for many years the United States Department of Agriculture maintained that steam canning is unsafe. Last year, the
What You Can, and Can’t, Can
Just about anything you would grow in your garden may be preserved by canning. Only a few foods cannot be safely canned at all, some may be canned in one form
How Do Blueberries Grow?
How do blueberries grow in my garden when there seems to be so much stacked against them? For the last few years I have been enjoying homegrown blueberries. Not an
