Posts Tagged ‘food preservation’

Expert Tips for Safe Home Food Storage

Expert Tips for Safe Home Food Storage

Janice Greg from the Oregon State University Extension Service shares her knowledge on food storage of staple items over the winter season.

Food.Farmer.Earth Newsletter: Pickles

Food.Farmer.Earth Newsletter: Pickles

Food.Farmer.Earth newsletter: Chef Kathryn Yeomans demonstrates how to can bread and butter pickles. We visit Sweet Creek Foods where they process pickles, jams, tomatoes, salsa and tuna. The Weekly Roundup, and more.

Co-Packing Cannery: Offering Added Value Food Processing to Farmers

Co-Packing Cannery: Offering Added Value Food Processing to Farmers

A positive step in the direction of helping to develop a regional food system.

Canning Food: Pickles

Canning Food: Pickles

Paul Fuller and his wife Judy have been building their food processing business Sweet Creek Foods—they refer to it as a “glassery” rather than a cannery—for 12 years.

How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles

How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles

In this episode, Chef Kathryn Yeomans of The Farmer’s Feast demonstrates how to can home-made bread and butter pickles.

Preserving an Essential Piece of the Local Food Web

Preserving an Essential Piece of the Local Food Web

Fermenting foods has long been an important technique for extending the life of foods well beyond their harvest season. Otherwise, as humans, we would have very little to eat in the winter and probably suffer from unpleasant nutritional deficiencies like scurvy.

Food.Farmer.Earth Newsletter: Householding

Food.Farmer.Earth Newsletter: Householding

Food.Farmer.Earth newsletter: Harriet Fasenfest shares practical tips for how to put up food for use throughout the year. Virginia Yoder provides a fascinating glimpse into a way of life that has largely vanished from the American landscape. The Weekly Roundup, and more.

Householding: A Way of Life, and of Thinking

Householding: A Way of Life, and of Thinking

Harriet Fasenfest explains how her love of food gardening, of cooking, and her early exposure to social issues evolved into her own brand of political consciousness that guides her present life.