Home food preservation season is beginning, with gardens starting to bloom. Planning is an important step in the preservation process. To ensure safety, home canning supplies and equipment need to be ...

Home canning is a popular way to preserve the freshness of homegrown food. Kansas State University food scientist Karen Blakeslee says that when done correctly, home food preservation also can save ...

Bregg thinks the canning lid shortage stems from “a perfect storm” of conditions: COVID-weary folks turning to home-gardening and canning to alleviate grocery bills and fears of future food shortages; ...

If you've taken up canning foods recently but are still confused as to how Mason jars are different from canning jars, you've reached the right place.

Though the COVID-19 pandemic may take responsibility for much of life’s disruptions this year, the shortages and price gouging of canning supplies has its roots in the 2019 "snowpocalypse." People ...

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The process of canning food at home uses heat to destroy micro-organisms that could cause illness, and the vacuum seal that forms between the lid and the jar blocks other micro-organisms from sneaking ...

WALNUT CREEK, Ohio—Self-sufficiency enthusiasts still have time to get tickets to the Food Independence Summit in Walnut Creek, Ohio, next week. The two-day event on June 20-21 at Timbercrest Camp and ...

Among the 1,344 jars of jams, soups, dried fruit and more at the canning and dehydration exhibit at the Clark County Fair, there is a jar of toe jam. Exhibition visitors are tasked with finding the ...