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.
Raspberries are hands down my favorite -whether I buy them in the store or am foraging for the small wild ones that grow in my backyard. The season always seems to go by so fast though. There are several choices when it comes to preserving these pretty red berries (freezing, dehydrating, etc), but I’m a …
Nothing smells like summer quite like honeysuckle does. The sweet smelling flowers can be found on vines in undisturbed places, usually with children around them eating the honey flavored nectar. Although the rest of the plant is not edible, honeysuckle flowers are edible and using them to make honeysuckle jelly is a great way to …
Rhubarb is one of the most reliable plants in the garden. A true perennial that comes back year after year in zones 3–8 with almost no fuss. The challenge isn’t growing it. It’s keeping up with it. When your rhubarb patch is producing faster than you can use it fresh, knowing how to preserve and …
Serious home preservers look for shortcuts to help create the best product that will last the longest on the pantry shelves. Learning when to blanch vegetables can help save money, save time, and give you the best-tasting food. I am a lazy preserver and will take shortcuts whenever possible. Now, don’t get me wrong, these …
Herb salt is a wonderful way to preserve your herb harvest. It’s easy, delicious, and repeatable in a number of different ways. Use this homemade herb salt recipe to keep herbs on hand for easy cooking in your own pantry or save jars to give to all your foodie friends. Herbs are (usually) some of …
There comes a time in late summer when grocery stores, farmers markets, and home gardens become overrun with herbs and fruit just waiting to be processed into something tasty. Have a plan for creating fresh garden syrups from your bounty this year. In our day, individual flavored syrups are usually used as a mixer with …
When it comes down to it, drying and storing herbs for the pantry keep the flavors of summer preserved for the fall and winter months. As summer winds to a close, gardeners are busily harvesting the last of the bounty. They know that a single frost, let alone a hard freeze, can destroy in a …
Canning foods is a wonderful way to preserve the harvest or even a great deal you find at your local farmers market or grocery store. But are you doing it correctly? Which is the best way? Water bath canning or pressure canning? When done correctly, canning is a wonderful and safe way to preserve foods …
Fermented beets are easy to make and a great way to add extra nutrition to your diet. But they can be a little boring. Spice up your ferments with this lacto-fermented spicy beet recipe. Summer is a bountiful time of year. Whether you are growing your own vegetables or buying from a grower or farmer’s …
Homemade fruit-infused vinegar is an excellent way to use fruit scraps, save money, and create something extra tasty. The trend towards self-reliance often begins in the kitchen. We search for ways to expand our knowledge and save our pocketbooks in the process. This can be accomplished by cooking with something new (like cranberries) when it …