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How We Made Strawberry Jam In 2022

Our canning didn’t go super smoothly in 2021. We finally admitted that we were not going to be able to can on the stove, so…

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Learning New Skills – 8 Things We Canned in 2021

Food security and being able to store food without refrigeration is something that is really important to us as we look towards being a little…

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Ferment Log August 15th – Pickles, tomatoes and bootch

I’m trying something new: keeping better track of our fermentation experiments, both in digital form (here and Instagram) and in a hard-copy notebook. It’s just…

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Love growing tomatoes, but hate eating them raw? Dehydrate them!

Okay, time for a confession: we both really dislike raw tomato. We love salsa, bruschetta, tomato sauce, ketchup, soup, etc… but biting into a raw…

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