Permies Poll: What percentage of your food is preserved by home canning?

How many Permies can at home as a method of food preservation? Do you utilize other food preservation techniques?

Most of ours is currently dried or frozen, though I'm hoping that this year we will do more canning - which we did until the last couple years. .

I didn’t vote because I’m in a unique circumstance. Being able to produce food year around, there is seldom need for long term food preservation.   But some of my foods are seasonal, therefore, sometimes I take steps to extend the harvest via freezing, pickling, drying, and…..canning. Right now I have some canned fruits in the pantry in the form of jams and thick syrups : strawberries, jaboticaba, guava, tamarillo. I’m not a canner myself. Simply no need since I have a freezer. But I can trade for canned goods when I want them.

Canning is not my number form of food preservation.
#1- freezing
#2- pickling (fermenting in the case of sauerkraut)
#3- drying
#4- turn the excess into something else that can used in the future for food. Examples: feed it to chickens for eggs and meat. Feed it to pigs for meat. Sell it so I have money to buy future foods. Trade it for future foods. I trade a lot and often get payment delayed, such as the future promise of breads, etc.

I bottled chicken today. Pre-seasoned with salt, turmeric, and cumin.

This was an off year for me.  Far too many health issues in our household.  Normally we can up around 300 quarts. …if there is a normal.   This year we ended up canning about 50 quarts of tomatoes.

Last vote in apple poll was on January 6, 2025