Keep your summer harvest to enjoy in the wintertime—without canning. Have you tried drying food? Bet you thought about dried apricots just now. You can dry all sorts of fruits and vegetables, and they’ll taste great. In our new video Tricia dries fruits and vegetables. Pretty much no muss, no fuss, if you have a good dehydrator. How and why does drying food work? Bacteria need moisture to thrive. Take the water out of food, and it’s safer to store. What to dry? Ripe, unbruised fruits…
You can grow Goji berries in your home garden instead of buying berries imported from overseas. Goji berries grow well in containers and in your garden soil. In our new video Tricia plants them both ways.…
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Have you ever massaged a persimmon? Hoshigaki massage is one way to preserve persimmons, and enhance their sweetness too. There are many ways to preserve persimmons. In our new video Tricia talks about…
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December 20, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Reward someone who gardens hard all summer long—help them preserve the harvest with this water-bath canner bursting with canning tools, jars, and a starter book. You might get some jam in return.…
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December 19, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Spice up any cook’s life with this stainless colander that also works as a harvest basket. Toss in seeds for herbs and edible flowers, mix the latest garden-to-table cookbooks and kitchen gadgets—and…
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In our video on making cider, Tricia shows how to crush apples with our crusher to create pomace, and then extract cider from the pomace. What to do with that leftover pomace, full of apple skins, pulp,…
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Do you have a favorite apple? Would you like to make your own apple cider with your favorite apple as the only ingredient? Surprisingly, that would not taste very good. Create the best apple cider with…
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Someone’s in the kitchen with garden writers Margaret Roach and Gayla Trail— It’s harvest time and we’re crazed canners (and freezers and dryers). Roll up your sleeves, wipe down…
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Canning green and wax beans together makes a beautiful jar for a gift, or your pantry, and an appetizing dish to serve. Wax beans and green beans are in the same family, so the processing time will be…
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Welcome to Advanced Canning, with a pressure canner instead of a water bath. In our latest video, Tricia cans green beans with a pressure canner. Let’s run through some basics of when and how to…
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Do you suffer from Fear of Canning? Sherri Brooks Vinton has the cure. Watch our interview with Sherri to get the good news. In a conversation with our Marketing Manager, Autumn Barr, Sherri offers the…
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