pickles

I hadn’t canned since 1986, according to records. (My mom, my pickling partner and methodical note-taker, jotted down the last date).

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

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

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