We are spoiled rotten when it comes to our food and it is 100% my fault. Our standards have been raised so high that we are akin to food snobs now. Not in the sense that the food needs to be expensive and fancy but in terms of being organically grown and from heirloom seeds. Those kind of snobs. And … [Read more...]
Learning to be an Efficient Canner
You've just come in from the garden and your baskets runneth over with home grown goodness. You may have giggled with delight as you put all the food on the counter or table, snap a few pictures and share with your friends and then...it hits you that the work has only just started. You have some … [Read more...]
When Homesteading Was Patriotic
The other day, I was surfing around Pinterest and came across some really cool posters from WWII (World War 2). They were all about farming, raising chickens and pigs, planting more beans, and having victory gardens. Homesteading was patriotic, or at least the raising of chickens, pigs, and growing … [Read more...]
New Skills: My First Batch of Sauerkraut
I don't really do much fermentation. Other than pickling, I just wasn't interested in making kombucha or anything like that. It just didn't appeal to me plus, I already had my hands full of projects. Then came the idea of making sauerkraut for a BBQ celebrating selling 500 copies of my first … [Read more...]
Unraveling the Mystery: Making Jams and Jellies
It's berry season!! Here in Southeast Alaska, we have three different berries that are prevalent: blueberries, huckleberries, and salmonberries. Three years ago, I taught myself how to make jams and jellies (yay for YouTube videos!) and we have not purchased so much as a single jar of either from … [Read more...]
Making Sauerkraut in a Mason Jar
I really don't do much in the way of fermenting, other than pickled food, as a food preservation method. Kombucha, kraut...we don't really eat any of it so there was never a need to learn how to do these things. Recently though, an opportunity came along that pushed me into making my first batch of … [Read more...]
Fan Question: Vacuum Sealing vs Mylar
One of the long time fans recently responded to a post made where I asked the readers what they wanted to read about. Marie W of Nevada asks "I have been meaning to ask what is the difference between storing in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers vs using a food saver? Can you use the oxygen absorbers … [Read more...]
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