Preserve the season’s bounty with Rootsy’s Food Preservation hub—your guide to shelf-stable goodness using time-tested methods including canning, fermenting, and creative pantry techniques.
Learn how to can sweet rhubarb pie filling, ferment crisp cherry tomatoes and spicy beets, or safely can hearty black bean soup and savory kidney beans for quick meals later.
Each tutorial encourages sustainability, homemade flavor, and resourceful kitchen living—making food preserving feel simple, nourishing, and deeply rewarding.
Canning plums is a great way to preserve plums to savor summer all year long. Plums can be canned whole or in halves, plain or sweetened, with or without spices, with or without the pits, and by raw packing or hot packing. Whether you’re preserving homegrown plums, wild plums, or plums that you purchased, it’s …
Canned rhubarb is a versatile and easy way to save up an abundant harvest for enjoying later. Canning raw rhubarb might not seem like the most exciting canning project. And while you might not want 30 quarts of it like tomato sauce, it is an extremely simple food preservation project with a number of tasty …
This canned black bean soup is a hearty, protein packed soup with a southwestern flair. Top with avocado slices and a little sour cream to make a creamy soup that will delight your family and friends. Canned soups are so very convenient for quick dinners on busy days or for packing in lunches, but commercial …
When making homemade jams and jellies, pectin is a very common ingredient, it’s often required to achieve a soft gel. Even though pectin is a common ingredient, I had many questions when I first starting making jams and jellies. What exactly is pectin and what does pectin do? Can I leave it out? Why are …
Ever wondered just what are the differences between jam and preserves? Or between jelly and jam? Soft spreads are some of the best and first things many home canners learn to make. These soft spreads often come in headings likes preserves, jams, jellies, and more. And yet those labels can be confusing. We’re here to …
Help loved ones get started on a canning journey or make their adventures more fun and efficient with this gift guide for the home canner. The ideas here range in price from frugal to luxurious. All of them are favorite tools of ours and while some are expensive you can rest assured that they will …
When someone says “fermented cabbage,” your first thought is typically sauerkraut. It’s usually the first recipe someone tries when venturing into the fermenting world, but homemade vegan kimchi is just as easy and oh so delicious! Kimchi can be intimidating at first for a lot of people, not just making it, but even eating it. …
Preserving food through fermentation is one of the oldest preservation methods and has made a big comeback over the last few years. Fermenters and homebrewers need fermentation jars, crocks and other equipment to practice their craft. Here’s a list of fermentation supplies that also make great gifts. Supplies for Vegetable Fermentation To successfully ferment vegetables …
Homemade crockpot applesauce is one of the easiest ways of preserving apples. This step by step recipe is perfect for canning applesauce or (freezing). Start making applesauce today! The wonderful thing about this homemade crockpot applesauce recipe is it is very easy to make adjustments to make it 100% your own! You can just as …
Canning pumpkin is a great way to preserve the harvest. If you have a root cellar, squash will store for up to six months. But for those without a root cellar, canning is a good way to have shelf stable pumpkin all year long. Butternut squash or any winter squash with the exception of spaghetti …