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Interview with Marisa McClellan, Shannon & Jason Mullett-Bowlsby, and Kat Kinsman.

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.

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

Canning is an important part of Amy Pennington’s book, Urban Pantry: Tips & Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonable Kitchen.

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

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