preservation
The Best Reason to Practice Food Preservation Methods
Add to Favorites I had a feeling something would go wrong. I’ve practiced food preservation methods since I was 12 and never had I felt so uneasy. I needed to put …
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7 Canning Myths: Inventing Canning Recipes and Other Bad Ideas
Add to Favorites There’s a lot of advice floating around the internet about canning, including the idea that you can make up your own canning recipes. Although it’s tempting to …
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How to Store Vegetables Through the Winter
Add to Favorites The garden has frozen over and your table sits heavy with food. Some food begins to wilt while others shine bright orange in the autumn light. Congratulations: your …
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Make Your Freezer Drought-Ready with These Food Preservation Methods
Add to Favorites Do you have any of the following in your pantry or kitchen: lettuce, spinach, kale, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, grapes, almonds, strawberries, oranges, walnuts, apricots, dates, figs, kiwi fruit, …
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Freezing: Food Preservation For Your Garden Greens
Add to Favorites Why do we preserve food? All those plantings often provide way more greens than can be eaten at once. To save abundant garden greens for later use, try …
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Food Preservation Examples: A Guide to Food Storage
Add to Favorites I tell my friends there are two types of people: preppers and those who laugh at preppers. Why is preparing for a rainy day such a laughable …
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A Tasty Recipe for 3-Bean Salad
Add to Favorites My bean plants have been growing splendidly this year, which means I have made my Dilly Bean recipe more times than I can count. When I picked …
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Seeds, Anyone? A Look at Seed Banks
A seed bank is a depository, a storage place, a facility built to store seeds and keep them safe for an unseen emergency, sort of like a bank vault.
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Make Your Own Seed Bank
Add to Favorites Scrolls, skeletons and seeds. That’s what the discovery of Herod’s Palace in Masada, Israel, revealed. Ancient history, preserved for future generations. Scientists carbon-dated the date palm seeds …
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The Long Keeper Tomato
Add to Favorites By Kevin Geer, California Let me start by recalling something my grandmother told me when I asked her about growing tomatoes. Grams told me, “Tomatoes are like young …
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A Prescription For Gardening
Add to Favorites By Kay Wolfe While researching the leading health problems of our day— cancer, strokes, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and dementia—they all have one thing in common: They …
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Growing Cauliflower from Seed
Add to Favorites By Nancy Pierson Farris, South Carolina Growing cauliflower from seed brings this healthy vegetable from garden to table. Cauliflower can serve as the focal point for a centerpiece …
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Your Guide to Growing Winter Squash
Add to Favorites Winter squash, like summer squash, melons and cucumbers, are part of the gourd family. Growing, harvesting, and keeping winter squash is, to me, among the easiest in …
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Growing Sweet Potatoes in Cold Climates
Add to Favorites America’s favorite candied root vegetable has an ancient history of warding off famine. Sweet potatoes were domesticated in South America over 5,000 years ago but other civilizations …
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Old and New Methods of Agriculture in The San Luis Valley
Add to Favorites By Karin Deneke, Photos by Chuck Reel and Karin Deneke The San Luis Valley’s farming legacy includes old and new methods of agriculture within a historically sustainable …
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