Preserving Vegetables

How to Can Rhubarb Juice

Every year we're faced with the same problem with the produce that we freeze—how the heck are we going to ...

How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles

I've heard it said that in every relationship, there's one person who loves pickles and one person who hates pickles, ...

How to Make Fermented Snap Peas

Snap peas or sugar snap peas are one of those "blink and you'll miss them" kind of produce. While they're ...

How to Make Fermented Garlic Scape Hot Sauce

The garlic scapes are up and this year we got quite the haul, coming in at around 1.5 kg, or ...

How to Pickle Garlic Scapes

One of the things I love about growing garlic is that you get two different harvests from them—the garlic, of ...

How to Make Pumpkin Butter

For fans of pumpkin and all things autumn, pumpkin butter is a treat. I made a batch last year and ...

Making and Preserving Pumpkin Puree

Cans of pumpkin puree are something I generally don't have on hand and when I set out to make something ...

Two Ways to Dry Hot Peppers (and What to Do With Them!)

In summer of 2022, I tried growing hot peppers for the first time. We had a few jalapeño pepper plants, ...

How to Make Butter Chicken Sauce (with Canning Instructions!)

Tomatoes are always a problem in our garden because we always have too many. In summer of 2022 we somehow ...