Under Preserving, we share how we preserve food. With only about 100 frost-free days, we want to preserve and store our summer bounties as much as we can to have homegrown food all throughout the long winter.
Long Time Storage
A Simple Way to Store Garlic
3 Great Ways to Store Onions
How To Ripen Green Tomatoes
Growing Food – Carrots
Growing Food – Potatoes
Growing Food – Cabbage
How-to grow and use Ground Cherries
Dozen ways to preserve Zucchini
Homegrown Food Storage
A dozen ways to preserve carrots
Our plant based pantry
Freezing
How to Freeze Beets
A Great Way to Freeze Carrots
Freezing Oranges – Aloe Orange Drink
The Easiest Way to Preserve Tomatoes
How to Freeze Berries
How to Freeze Greens
2 Ways to Freeze Cauliflower
Dozen Ways to Preserve Zucchini
A Dozen Ways to Preserve Apples
How to Freeze Herbs
Organizing a Chest Freezer with Plant Food
Make-ahead coleslaw recipe
Easy frozen strawberry recipe
Frozen raw tomato sauce
Apfelrotkohl (Red Cabbage with Apples) Recipe
All about freezing vegetables
Dehydrating
Fresh and Dry Basil in the Winter
Apple Chips – no Sugar Added
Dozen Ways to Preserve Zucchini
Dehydrating Greens
A Dozen Ways to Preserve Apples
Hot Pepper Flakes or Powder
Homegrown Herbal Tea
Homemade Hot Pepper Flakes or Powder
Drying Culinary Herbs
Fermenting
Fermenting is Simple – Learn the Basics
Homemade Fire Cider
Fermented dilly carrots
Fermented Hot pepper paste
Homemade Sauerkraut, the simple way
How To Make Fermented Half-Sour Pickles
Using a Water-Sealed Fermentation Crock Pot
Fermented Pickles for winter
Fermented Watermelon Recipe
Fermented Tomatoes
A dozen ways to preserve carrots
Canning
Pickled Beets Recipe
Pressure Canned Potatoes
Ranchera Salsa Recipe
German Dill Pickles Recipe
Canning Homemade Tomato Salsa
Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce
Canned Zucchini Tongue Recipe
Apple Sauce Apple Jam Apple Butter
Canning Recipes 2016
Canned Zucchini Salad
Lecho Canned Bell Peppers Recipes
Canned Cucumber and Tomato Lecho
Homemade Ajika Salsa Recipe
Carrot Pepper Salsa
Canned Zucchini Spread (Ikra) Recipe
Canning Dry Beans
Preparing and storing cunning Jars
Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Recipe
Raspberry Chocolate Jam Recipe
Sour Cherry Jam Recipe Without Pectin
Haskap Honeyberry Jam Recipe
Tools we use for food preserving
Water-Sealed Fermentation Crockpot
Steam Canner
Pressure Canner
DIY Solar dehydrator
Wow! I love your website. Thank you.
I am from Brazil, leaving in Calgary since 2005 (married a Canadian) and we bought a small house in SK (zone 3a or b) in 2020. I am learning gardening from scratch. My husband has another 3-4 years to retire before you live in SK for the prepping and growing season from Easter to December (we will keep a place in AB to be close to our kids). The house in SK came with a nice size garden on the ground that we hope to turn into raised beds when we can. I will take my time to read all your posts – and tips on greenhouses etc… I love sweet potatoes and would love to grow them. I know very little about preserving, canning and fermenting… but want to learn specially these days that everything seems to be going crazy and growing my own food seems the right thing to do. The problem is that we don’t live in SK full time so we are trying the best we can with Victoria Day long weekend (I’m here in SK right now) going back to Calgary tomorrow. Anyway, it’s been a bit hard to learn all this and I get very tired (and confused) watching videos and different tips. Now that I found your website I feel I can just stick around and not spend so much time researching from one website to the other. You seem to have everything that I need right now, right here. And you are like “a neighbour”. I find that very nice. Take care and thank you again.
So happy to hear you find the information helpful. We too have two properties, not as far apart as yours. You might have already noticed that we like to keep things simple, enjoyable, and productive. Thanks for following along.
I live on the South Coast of England . I get a veg box every week with organic vegetables . I am trying to preserve some of it and perhaps the carrot salsa would be good. I am very old now but still going good ! Delicious non toxic food is my aim for me and my partner ! Many thanks for your very helpful site and tips!
Happy to hear that our blos is helpful. Thank you for your kind words.
Love the canned cucumber lecho recipe
mine is quite runny, would prefer it a bit thicker, what would your opinion be to adjusting?
less vinegar and oil………….or more tomatoes…………more cucumbers
thanks for all the great tips and recipes
You can not adjust vinegar or produce in a canning recipe for safety reasons. You can use more meaty tomatoes, so the recipe is good as is. Or if you only have more juicy tomatoes, cook them down before adding the cucumbers.