I’ve had a lot of questions lately about the economics of food preservation. If you have to buy 20 pounds of tomatoes to make it worth your while, and farmer’s market tomatoes cost $3 a pound, how can you afford it? And if you can only afford to can/freeze/dehydrate supermarket tomatoes, why bother? This is [...]
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Yesterday we celebrated the Canvolution, a day of food preservation to celebrate tradition, the harvest, and local foodways. I spent the morning doing a “dry demo” at the Clark Park Farmer’s Market, then taught my inaugural water-bath canning class. I hope those of you who stopped by to ask a question or attended the class [...] Hey kids! Just a reminder that the Canvolution is tomorrow. We’ve got 4 slots left in our introduction to water-bath canning class. It’s at 2 o’clock in West Philadelphia (near Clark Park). $25 covers all supplies. You’ll leave with a jar of peaches and the confidence to preserve all sorts of summer goodness. Drop us [...] Remember my abundance of green beans? And my sad little potatoes? They’ll make a happy little salad. About half a pound of potatoes, preferably small and garden-fresh 1) Bring a small pot [...] You’ve heard about my gardening woes. Fortunately, not all is lost: I am growing a bumper crop of tomatillos. For the uninitiated, tomatillos are closely related to tomatoes, except that they’re green and grow in husks. The husks puff up when the plant starts to set fruit, and when the fruit fills the husk, they’re [...] Faced with an avalanche of blackberries? Want a freezer or shelf full of gorgeous, garnet colored sauce? Then this might be just the project for you. I’m loathe to call it a “recipe”—it’s something Jilly whipped up when I kept bringing in box after box of giant blackberries from our mother’s patch on my recent [...] There are people who will tell you that you can grow potatoes in pots. They would be wrong. And yes, that is my entire crop. As you’ve surely gathered by now, Jilly, the Southern Indiana sister, has some goats. Until a few months ago, however, she didn’t have any goat milk because her goats had never been bred. Recently, though, she and my brother-in-law increased their flock to include a goat in her milk. For better or for worse, [...] The winner of the canning kit is Jane Cambell, from Manchester, Missouri. Congratulations! And thank you to everyone else who left those wonderful comments. Please read them if you have a chance—the stories of perserverance, family traditions, and loved ones no longer with us will warm your heart. And Era, for goodness sake: please buy yourself [...] |
  
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