Tools for Harvest and Preservation.
The list of Harvesting tools is a very simple and short list. All you need are your hands, a pair of good shears, and a bushel basket and/or a utility cart. There might be times where you will need a hand trowel, or that cats-paw again, depending on what you have grown.
Canning Your Own Homemade Convenience Foods
You have finally gotten to the point where most of your meals are cooked from scratch. You are seeing the savings in your grocery budget and are so pleased to be able to feed your family wholesome health building foods.
But, it would be so nice to once in awhile be able to make a fast and easy meal without compromising health and without busting the budget.
What is the answer to this dilemma?? Canning up your own good quality foods so they are sitting on the shelf ready to eat!
Every year we make jam. I love the taste of homemade jam. Once you taste the goodness of your own jam you won’t be able to go back to the store bought overly sugared tasteless jam. If you have never canned before jam making is a very easy and rewarding first step.
Preserving food by drying is a technique hundreds of years old and just as useful today as it was then. Fruits, vegetables and even cooked meat can be sliced, dried and bagged for later use, and considering the rising cost of food from the supermarket, drying your own is good economy.
- Apples: Preserving – Fact sheet explaining how to prepare apples for freezing or canning, also recipes for syrup for preservation, preserving without sugar, recipes for chutney and cinnamon apple rings.
- Canning Jars and Facts – Information guide from the food authority, tips, timing chart, and canning forum
- Canning Tomato Products – Ohio State University Extension fact sheet on canning, selection, acidification, preparation and processing.
- Homemade Maple Syrup – Directions for tapping, collecting, and making your own maple syrup.
- How To Can and Freeze Fruits and Vegetables from your Garden – Explains how to store garden produce by canning or freezing.
- Mountain Breeze Home Canning – Canning recipes from Kentucky.
- Pepper Fools – A large collection of canning recipes using Chile peppers.
- Pickled Crab Apples – Basic recipe using hot water bath method.
- Quality for Keeps – Directions and recipes for canning meat, fish and poultry safely.
- Squash Pickles – Calls for eight cups of any kind of summer squash
- Unsafe Canning Methods – What not to do when canning foods from the University of Wisconsin.
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