Preserve
Confidently fill your shelves and freezer with safe, healthy food by canning, dehydrating, fermenting, freeze-drying, infusing, curing, brewing, and more!
We’ll show you tutorials for canning meat using the raw-pack method, how we preserve all our excess eggs to use during winter (or how we freeze eggs for easy baking), plus we share fermented recipes including fermented cranberry sauce, fermented garden tomatoes and ginger carrots.

Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting a Freeze Dryer
Thinking about getting a freeze dryer? Here are 7 things I wish I knew before starting, so you can save time, reduce food waste,

How to Preserve Eggs: 5+ Ways to Use Up or Store Extra Eggs Long-Term
Learn five different ways to use up or preserve your extra eggs for those months when the chickens aren't laying as much!

Water Bath Canning vs Pressure Canning: What’s the Difference and When to Use Each
If you’ve ever felt unsure about whether to use a water bath canner vs a pressure canner, you’re not alone. This is one of

Canning Mistakes That Can Kill You: Avoid These Risks
Canning mistakes can feel intimidating, especially canning mistakes that can kill you or when you hear warnings about food safety and botulism. But the

Cultured Dairy Made Simple
Cultured dairy may sound complicated, but it’s actually one of the simplest traditional kitchen skills you can learn. In this post, I’ll explain what

Is Water Bath Canning Safe? Here’s What Every Beginner Needs to Know
Is water bath canning safe? Learn what to watch for, how to know if a recipe is safe and build your canning confidence with

Natural Cheesemaking: Using Clabber, Kefir, and Raw Milk Cultures for Homemade Cheese
Learn how to make natural cheese using traditional raw milk cultures like clabber, kefir, and backsplash whey. Join me with Robyn Jackson from Cheese

Garlic Dill Sauerkraut Recipe
Learn to make this garlic dill sauerkraut that's quickly become our family's new favorite sauerkraut recipe!

How to Rehydrate Dehydrated Food
Learn how to rehydrate dehydrated food the right way so your family actually loves eating it. Practical tips, blanching chart, rehydration ratios, and more!

The Life of a Pumpkin: From Seed to Pumpkin Pie
Over the last few years, Josh and I have really been focusing on learning how to be more efficient with our time on the

A Big Apple Preservation Day on the Homestead
It’s officially apple season here on the homestead, and that means the kitchen is humming with the sounds and smells of preservation. This year,

Cultured Buttermilk Recipe
This tutorial shows you how to make cultured buttermilk, the science behind how buttermilk elevates your recipes, and ways to use buttermilk that might