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What to Do With Fresh Strawberries and How to Freeze Strawberries

Every June it sneaks up on me – strawberry season. I’ve spent the last few months working through our freezer stash and home-canned goods. The weather is getting warmer, and we all want to live outside and forget about complicated meals. Then it hits me – it’s time to start preserving again! The first item

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20 Easy Ways to Eat, Preserve and Freeze Apples – with No Sugar!

Apple season is here! If you can buy in bulk, you’ll want to make lots of healthy recipes PLUS preserve apples for later – read on for instructions for freezing, canning, and dehydrating apples in multiple ways plus our best real food apple recipes! If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, how many

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Monday Missions Baby Steps Back to Basics

Monday Mission: Quick Trick for Storing Water for Emergencies

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to take one small step toward being prepared for an emergency – having water on hand. This tip is so quick, you won’t believe it’s even Kitchen Stewardship®. Although maybe I’ll think of some things to ramble on about that will make the post longer and longer… 

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How to make crunchy, crispy lacto-fermented pickles for probiotic health (or canned). Learn from my failures and ferment crisp pickles with this recipe for success!

Finally…Crunchy Pickles! (Lacto-Fermented and Canned)

Phew! I don’t like having mishaps and failures in the kitchen. So much time, so much capital and raw material invested in any new venture. I was pretty excited and nervous to try my hand at canning(link no longer available), and I was (mildly) devastated when the result was soft pickles. Lacto-fermentation had similar results,

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