Canning Across America

My 80 year old grandmother, who was born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, has been putting-up for as long as I can remember.

A watercolor sketch Marcia Milner-Brage titled Marie's Pantry. Separately, Marcia's also captured Marie’s harvest before the canning.

I came to canning late in life, spurred on by friends who seemed to be making pickles, jams and other yummy things every time I stopped into their kitchens.

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

I first learned to can when I was about eight years old back in Texas. Four generations of women–my Great-Grandma

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 have started canning as a new tradition for our family. In the spring we started with making violet jelly. My children have had so much fun with the whole process.

Have you ever seen a super hot deal on produce and think "I should can that"? Me, too. I’m what many seasoned canners call a "newbie": meaning that

I am a member of a federally recognized Native American Reservation in Northwest Washington.

Many of us have fond memories of Blueberries for Sal, the classic Robert McCloskey picture book about a mother and daughter in 1940s Maine who head out one