Off-Grid Foods

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...

By Lee Bellinger I clearly remember my grandmother's home canning. It was the stuff of legend in our family – and yes, some teasing because it...

Yogurt is a dairy product, and like all dairy products, it comes from milk—in this case, milk that has been fermented by bacteria known as yogurt...

Big game hunting can provide you and your family with a lot of high-quality natural meat. If you choose to process it yourself, you have even...

These are not the easiest of times for the pesticide companies, the food manufacturers, and the seed vendors who are responsible for the biotechnology revolution in...

The introduction of genetically modified foods and food ingredients into the American diet has been a smashing success for agribusiness interests and the food manufacturing companies....