Food Preservation
Welcome to the food preservation page! We are excited to help you along your learning journey to safely preserve food at home. On this page you will find canning, fermenting, drying, curing, and possibly some other ways to store food such as waterglassing eggs! We hope you are encouraged and inspired.
Canning
There are countless online sources sharing canning tutorials and recipes, but unfortunately, many of them may be sharing questionable information. Let us show you how to safely can your bounty for future use. Remember botulism is colorless, tasteless, and odorless; it's not worth the risk to attempt unsafe canning practices.
Fermenting
What did homesteaders do before refrigeration? For many things, they turned to fermenting as a form of food preservation.
Drying
What all sorts of things can be dried? Pretty much anything: fruit, meat, herbs, peppers, and more. Drying can be done manually or by utilizing a food dehydrator. Please note this section on drying is NOT the same as freeze drying; currently, this website has no freeze drying section.
Curing
Once you have cured your garden produce, you can use root cellaring techniques to preserve the food for winter use.
Freezing
Let us show you what we choose to place in our freezer and how we go about it. Please note, this section on freezing is NOT the same as freeze drying; currently, this website has no freeze drying section.
Additional Skills
*water glassing eggs *yogurt making *vacuum sealing
