Canning Across America

Basic steps in hot water bath canning which means boiling the filled jars until they are hermetically sealed.

Pickled Garlic Scapes adapted from the "Dilly Beans" recipe from the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. Makes approximately 1 pint.

Check out this awesome video from CAA Member Brook Hurst Stephens of Learn to Preserve. Be sure to turn the volume up on your computer.

I visited the UK for the third time when I was fourteen (and actually old enough to remember) and fell in love with nearly everything.

This week’s photo of the week is a treat - Monkey Butter by Brook Hurst Stephens. Brook shares her recipe for Monkey Butter (Banana Jam)

I packed my suitcase last month full of clothes I haven’t needed in Austin, TX since February. In between all the layers Pacific Northwesterners told me to p...

There are times in life when things just don't go according to plan. For someone like me, who loves to plan the future, there is really nothing worse than

Come summer in the Wachau Valley, Austria's Napa, the apricot trees are so draped with fruit that growers have to prop up their tree limbs with wooden crutches.

Quick video out about How to Pickle Veggies with Marisa McClellan by the folks at The Daily.

Until fairly recently (certainly within the past couple of generations) families harvested crops in the fall and stored enough food to get them through