Summer’s incredible bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables is part of what makes this time of year so great. Every time you bite into a juicy, vine-ripened heirloom tomato, you don’t think about the ...

A new generation of home cooks is embracing canning—in part because it’s a good way to preserve the fresh produce of the season and have total control over what’s in the final product, and in part ...

In a previous column, I discussed how to preserve your fruit crop by freezing or dehydrating it. Since I am also a certified master food preserver, I thought I would use this column to discuss canning ...

Let’s look at pressure canning vs water bath. Learn which foods are safe to process in a boiling water bath and which must be canned in a pressure canner. There are two methods of canning: in a ...

There s nothing better than biting into a perfectly ripe peach or dicing just-picked tomatoes for a quick summer salad. Except, perhaps, enjoying that same peach or tomato during the dead of winter.

Pot of boiling water on single burner - Kei Shooting/Shutterstock When you think of canned water, you might imagine small, gray, government-issued cans of drinking water stocked in a Cold War-era ...