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



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