When prepping, the first step most people is to buy canned food for storage. Nothing wrong with starting here, I did myself. There is one commercially canned vegetable that does not store well on the shelf

canning beans

In an attempt to figure out different ways to preserve my huge potato harvest, I've decided to try the vacuum sealer. For this technique I washed the potatoes Dried the potatoes , leaving them to dry for

A few years ago Mr. Rain made me these storage boxes for my empty canning jars out of old pallets. For the past couple of years most of them have sat empty collecting dust as I have been keeping most of