Tag Archive for ‘home preservation’
JAMBOREE
There’s a jamboree of sorts going on here on the urban homestead kitchen. Whipping out preserves sweet and savory for customers at our Front Porch Farm Stand.
WHAT ARE YOU JAMMIN’ TO?
On the preservation front this week: pickling beets, apple pie filling, apple butter, elderberry jam, peaches in syrup, zucchini pickles and pumpkin butter (going to use those gorgeous pumpkins!). Next round should be tomato sauce and pickled peppers.
EAT WHAT YOU CAN, CAN WHAT YOU CAN’T!
Learning practical food preservation has been something I’ve looked forward to every year and have come to enjoy. Looking at the colorful jars that are stocking the cabinet you get a real sense of food security …
CAN IT
When we started growing full time, every summer it came down to too many vegetables and fruits and something needed to be done with the surplus. So, learning practical food preservation has been something I’ve looked forward to every year and have come to enjoy. Looking at the colorful jars that are stocking the cabinet [...]
CANNING DAYS
The preservation efforts continue here on the urban homestead. Like our pioneer predecessors would say ”make hay while the sun shines.” It’s preservation time! More scrumptious strawberries Homepreservation efforts continue An afternoon’s worth of canning: figs, strawberries and peaches Collection of scented herbs and roses drying for homemade herbal teas A day’s harvest of beans from [...]
HOME PRESERVATION
As summer approaches and the onslaught of garden harvests is about to descend on gardeners across the nation, planting gives way to preserving. Fellow Freedom Gardeners and those who’ve joined the Harvest Keeper Challenge will be stocking up their homegrown harvest for the fall and winter months ahead. Now, more than ever folks are relearning [...]
CAN WHAT YOU CAN
Food was a national concern in the United States during Second World War years.”Make Food Fight for Freedom by Eating Wisely” was the title of a booklet prepared by the War Ad Council around 1944. Citizens were encouraged to cooperate with rationing efforts and to grow Victory Gardens . The bounty produced from a plot [...]
