Learn to can, dehydrate, pickle, freeze, and ferment your food! Save money and live a more self-reliant life by putting up the harvest from your homestead!
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How to Preserve Your Garden Harvest
Learn how to preserve your garden harvest. Notes on the easiest methods to preserve fruits and veggies!
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How to Dehydrate Apples for Storage
Dehydrate Apples for Easy Storage Sometimes we have more apples from our Azure Standard order or from a friend’s tree than I can use all at once. I like to make homemade applesauce and old-fashioned applesauce cake, plus I also enjoy slicing them up to dehydrate apples for winter. You…
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Using Summer’s Harvest
What Are You Harvesting? I love having an abundance of fresh veggies in the summer. There is such a sense of satisfaction when your entire meal is home raised! I hope you are harvesting lots of fresh food from your homestead too! My beans have mostly been munched to the…
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Fermentools Starter Kit Review
Disclaimer: I received a starter kit to review from Fermentools and they sponsored a giveaway of this product. However, all opinions are my own. Fermentools Starter Kit Makes Fermenting Easy I recently tried out the Fermentools Starter Kit created by Matt Gross, founder of Fermentools. I made one quart of…
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Cranberry-Orange Marmalade
See also How to Make Cranberry Jam and How to Make Jam from Frozen Fruit Cranberry Orange Marmalade Yield: approximately 15 half pints 20 oranges, washed 8 cups sugar 3 packages low sugar pectin 4 cups cranberry juice 3 cups cranberries, sorted and washed Using a medium cheese grater, remove the…
