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Preserving Your Favorite Soft Fruits. There is nothing quite like opening a jar of bright, sweet jam in the middle of winter and smelling the sunshine of a summer afternoon. If you’ve ever been intimidated by the idea of making your own preserves, take a deep breath! Preserving berries and other soft fruits is one…
Transforming Cucumbers and Beans into Quick Pickles. Pickling is one of the easiest and most flavorful ways to preserve your harvest, and you don’t need a pantry full of specialized equipment to get started. Quick pickles, also known as refrigerator pickles, are the perfect entry point. Unlike traditional canning, there is no boiling water bath…
Preserving Your Spring Harvest. Spring has officially sprung, and if your countertop is currently buried under a mountain of strawberries, blueberries, asparagus and peas, you’ve probably thought: “I wish I could keep this flavor forever.” Good news! You can. Water bath canning is the perfect entry point for preserving your hard-won harvest. It’s essentially a…
Part IV – What to do with all that food Along with growing all this food comes the question of what to do with it. Harvests normally last a few weeks with all that glorious fruit ripening at once. Even if you share, sell and eat fresh, there will likely be too much at once,…