Join the Canvolution!
Kim O’Donnel, cookbook author and founder of CAA, shows Margaret Larson how easy and tasty it is to can. To view the full segment, please click here.
You can can too! Join us online this Saturday, August 13th, for live-streaming demonstrations as part of National Can-It-Forward Day. View the full schedule of events here and be sure to sign up to get your log-in info on the FreshPreserving.com website.
Look who is getting excited about National Can-It-Forward Day, August 13th.
The Columbus Dispatch talks to our Canning Across America editor, Jeanne Savage, about the first Can-It-Forward Day on August 13th. Check it out!
photo by Shae Irving
Canning Across America is in the news today! The article, by cookbook author and culinary school instructor Greg Atkinson in the Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine, features a recipe made with his Spicy Pear and Dried Cranberry Chutney. Check it out!
SPICY PEAR AND CRANBERRY CHUTNEY
Our very own Kim O’Donnel, was featured in the November 2010 issue of Seattle Magazine for being an influential founder of Canning Across America.
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We’ve been getting a lot of press love lately. One of our members, journalist Rebekah Denn wrote a lovely article, “Can Do,” about canning and Canning Across America in this past Sunday’s Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine. Check it out!
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Seattle Met Magazine just came out with its Ten Trends That Seattle is Dishing Out With Great Success and canning via Canning Across America is one of them, which means you are one of them. Yay us!
Keep up the good work folks and viva la Canvolution!
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In many ways, it feels like we’ve known each other a lifetime. That’s the power of twitter, facebook, press, and above all else— a canvolution.
Inspired by Yes, We Can, a community home canning project in the Bay Area, founding member Kim O’Donnel asked out loud on Twitter: What if Seattle got in on the canning act? Better still, what if we led the charge and set a date for a city-wide can-a-thon and encourage other cities around the country to follow suit for simultaneous coast-to-coast canning ‘stravaganzas?
Within less than a week, CanningAcrossAmerica.com was born.
Together, over the past year, we’ve shared success and disappointment, resources and recipes, mentoring and festivity around the canning kettle and here on the computer screen. It is the sincere desire to celebrate the bounty of local and seasonal produce that has unified people from all walks of life and level of expertise.
We could not have done this without every one of you. Because of your support and readership, Canning Across America has evolved from “a nationwide, ad hoc collective of cooks, gardeners and food lovers committed to the revival of the lost art of “putting up” food”, into a true movement.
The collective voice of Canning Across America celebrates our one-year birth today. Pop a can and enjoy with us!
Canning is so hot that even the Wall Street Journal has gotten hip to “putting up.” Check out reporter Ana Campoy’s story, which mentions Canning Across America. To say we’re thrilled is an understatement; we’re doing a jig by the canning kettle!
P.S. Link is good for 7 days for non-subscribers of WSJ. Permanent PDF version of the story to come.
