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Warm weather often means jam-making time at my house. Raspberry jam is my particular favorite, but I make a big stock of strawberry for my husband too. Jams and conserves are among the simplest canning projects to undertake. All you ...

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 years ago in ancient caves and dwellings. Home-canned foods do have a certain charm. ...

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 more control over your food supply. Processing your own big game animal is not ...

Food storage is one of the most important aspects of prepping and survival planning. Even if you have a nice homestead set up with a garden and livestock, you should be prepared with stored foods. This can include canned goods, ...

Enjoying fresh food from a healthy source is one of the most enjoyable, and important, aspects of living off the grid. Unfortunately, not every food is in season throughout the year. Of course, there are a variety of solutions for ...

Tapping into power is one thing, but sustaining the energy and using it full time is quite another.  Regardless of the type of energy source you use (ideally more than one in conjunction with each other to create a genuinely ...

Root vegetables are like the backup calorie base.  They can add bulk and nutrition when the “pantry” cannot (like when you are sick of bread).  Used in conjunction with the pantry items (flour, fats, grains, starches, etc.), the root vegetables ...

Why Dry? Dehydration is one of several ways to store food. The process involves removing most of the water from food by using heat. Heat, regardless of the source, kills bacteria in the food. Bacteria are what cause food to ...

When the snow begins to fall, that’s when you feel like calling it quits.  Now, some hunters and shooters are die hard and will put rounds down range in four feet of snow, but you aren’t as crazy.  You might ...

Wheat is one of those ubiquitous foods that allow for so much variety, and packs an amazingly hefty protein and calorie punch too. Unless you need to find a gluten-free alternative (in which case you might want to think about ...