Off-Grid Foods

As you line up your freshly sterilized glass jars and get ready to can your bumper crop of beans and your bubbling crockpot filled with garden-fresh...

Do you have more peppers in your garden than you know what to do with? Maybe you’re sick of fajitas, stuffed peppers, and stir-fry and you've...

I’ve been an advocate of food storage for years. Early in our marriage, my husband and I began setting aside a certain amount of money each...

When I first started canning years ago, I had just a few basic supplies: a water-bath canner, a jar lifter, a funnel, and some jars. In...

One of the best parts of any garden is the delight that comes from growing fresh herbs. While many types of herbs can be easily grown...

Image source: JoyOfKosher.com Warm weather often means jam-making time at my house. Raspberry jam is my particular favorite, but I make a big stock of strawberry...

Long before pressure canners or water-bath-canners existed, people preserved food by drying it. In fact, anthropologists have found dried corn and squash dating more than 6,000...

Health seems to be on a general decrease in North America. Each year we’re swarmed by statistics of the high obesity rates, increasing incidents of high...

My mother introduced me to most of the fruits and vegetables I grow on my property today—with the exception of grapes. Why she never grew them,...

When I was a child, the dairyman down the road delivered our milk to our doorstep in large glass pickle jars. My mother refrigerated the raw...