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

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.

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

I arrived at the food preservation reservation on a very slow train and my first stop was strawberry jam sealed with paraffin wax. There’s an irrepressible me...

I always feel like there’s magic in the air in the springtime. The blooming flowers, the appearance of colorful fruits and vegetables at the market and the c...

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