Preserving Produce

Last night, we had strawberry shortcake in the middle of winter. The strawberries were some that I had frozen this past summer from our patch. It was so good. We have also been eating many other of our frozen and canned produce. If you have not preserved produce before, this time of year is a great time to start researching how to do this task. Preserving your own produce or those bought locally during the peaks of the seasons is a great way to help decrease your food carbon footprint. The best part is you will increase the taste of your food in the winter time.

There are many ways to learn how to can. Your local home extension service will have brochures available on the subject that you can get online or at the actual facility. You can check a basic food preservation book at the library. This is a good way to test several books and then pick the one that works best for you before buying one for a resource book.