When Storing Food, Consider These Canning Mistakes to Avoid

by Grain | May 12, 2022 | Food Supply, growing food, Long Term Storage

Canning Mistakes to Avoid When you get into canning, it can be a little overwhelming. You understand the benefits of using up your produce and having unprocessed foods at the ready, but there is a lot to be considered in the beginning. Before you get started, here are...

The Self-sustaining Plan.

by Grain | Aug 22, 2011 | Emergency Essentials, food crisis, Food Supply, Gardening, Lifestyle, Preparation

What exactly does that look like? Honestly, if anyone tries to tell you how you HAVE to do it, be a tad bit skeptical. In my opinion there is no “one-size-fits-all” plan to being more self sustaining. Sure, some of the components are quit similar and many...

Preparation and Food Storage: Home-canning

by Dnurkle | Mar 7, 2011 | Epidemics, food crisis, Food Supply, Long Term Storage, Preparation, Survival, Uncategorized

Canned goods are not just in the commercially canned containers. Not too far in the distant past, most of the preserved foods had little to do with added preservatives, but with canning. The first canning process was developed as a French military discovery by Nicolas...

Bulk Food Storage: Canned Goods

by Grain | Aug 12, 2009 | Preparation

Canned goods add great value to your long-term food storage plans. Obviously for a variety of reasons, some of which are: Some items are better stored by canning than any other process, thus increasing variety of foods stored. There is little preparation for a canned...

Preparation Step 2 – Include your family members.

by Dnurkle | Apr 1, 2009 | Uncategorized

When building up your food storage and preparation stock, it is often over looked how to include family members. We hope to address that here in Preparation Step #2. In an ideal world, your family members (be they extended members, siblings, a spouse or children)...