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. .
"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato
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.
It's never too late to start! I retired to homestead on the slopes of Mauna Loa, an active volcano. I relate snippets of my endeavor on my blog : www.kaufarmer.blogspot.com
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.
Some people age like fine wine. I aged like milk … sour and chunky.
He was expelled for perverse baking experiments. This tiny ad is a model student: