Food Preservation

How To Make Homemade Apple Butter

Go big with an old-time copper kettle and outdoor fire, or make a smaller batch in your kitchen. Either way, you’ll discover why blogger Dave Ross calls bread slathered with apple butter “kingly food!”

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How To Can Venison (and other wild game)

Do you know just how easy canning venison can be? Cut it up, put it in a jar and pressure can it? Surely there is more to it than that! Well, there is a little bit more…. but not much.

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How To Can Homemade Soup

Home-Canned Soup: the convenience of heat-and-serve, and the healthy benefits of home-cooked meals. Follow these simple tips for safe canning.

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Journey of An Orchard

Today is a great day for making a plan. Buy that tool, order that canner or clear that lot of weeds and rocks.

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Startled by Peaches (+ Peach Salsa Recipe)

This spring the trees were an absolutely breathtaking array of colorful, bee-infused blossoms that soon transformed into our first ever fruit harvest. The peaches ripened first. They came slowly for the first week until suddenly…

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