If gardeners find spring and summer to be about growing food, they find fall and winter to be more about storing food. The fall season brings bountiful harvest from your own garden as well as inexpensive prices from local farmers’ markets. In winter months, prices on produce inevitably rise. So…
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Read More »Oven canning is a method that works well to preserve pasta, rice, dried beans, rolled oats, flour, dehydrated apples, potatoes, carrots, soup peas, flour, lentils, cereals (without seeds or raisins), cake, biscuit and bread mixes, banana chips, and dehydrated dairy products.The heat kills any insects or eggs that might be…
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