Stacks of canned fruits and vegetables on display
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Storing the Harvest: Best Ways To Preserve Food

BySamantha

Imagine this, you have a harvest of a bumper crop of certain fruits and vegetables in your homestead garden or someone has shared their bumper crop or you’ve made a trip to the local farmer’s market or fruit stand. The question becomes, how to preserve all that food? Here are some of the best ideas…

jars filled with different canned fruits like raspberries and peaches
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Food Canning Basics for the Homestead

BySamantha

A large part of gardening and homesteading, is figuring out how to preserve all the food harvested from the garden to then be enjoyed all year round. One of the ways to preserve food is canning it. Are you new to the idea of canning and preserving? Are you interested in learning the very basics…