Canning Across America

December is here and Christmas is just around the corner! I’ve decided to make a delightfully seasonal marmalade, inspired by a recipe I found in the Blue Cha...

I have not begun canning yet this year–it feels early yet to me. In my experience, you typically purchase a bushel of tomatoes on the second hottest day of t...

Where I grew up, grown men did not eat grilled figs with baby greens and artisanal goats’ milk cheese.

When I first discovered canning, I felt that a part of my childhood had lacked something very crucial–putting away our abundance...

A fresh strawberry is one of life’s great delights. Icons of summer, these luscious red jewels of nature inspire our senses with their perfumed and sweet

The summer that I first discovered home preserving, no produce was safe. There was something so gratifying about containing brightly colored fruits and...

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

Thanks to our friends at the Washington State Fruit Commission, we’ve got cherries on the brain - and on the stove, and in jars.

I can proudly say that I am a canning virgin no more. In contrast to other such firsts, this time I was very anxious before, but deeply satisfied later.

For me, a woman not more than a minute away from her twenties and raised in a suburban setting, it would have been entirely possible for the concept of canning