Canning Inspiration

Canning is on my mind - Maybe its because our root cellar is ALMOST done; or maybe its because Ben just placed the order for that super duper amazing pressure canner I have had my eye on for a year; maybe it is because I have about 60 cases of empty jars waiting to be filled; or maybe it is because I just got an email from a local co-op that said it's time to order Georgia Peaches. Whatever it is - I am more excited than ever to start canning this year. Canning will be a key part to putting food up without electricity for our family...so it has become something I want to master. :-) Here is an EXTENSIVE list of amazing blogs that will inspire and challenge you to stock your pantry with homemade goodies. If anyone knows of great canning posts or links - I would love for you to share them in the comment section.

Canning Food Blogs:

American Home Canning

Canning Basics

Simply Canning

Putting By

Food In Jars

Canning Across America

Tigress in a Jam & Tigress in a Pickle

Canning Jars Etc.

Consider the Pantry

Saving The Season

Doris and Jilly

I don't know about you - but food in jars, lined on shelves is beautiful to me. It is colorful and it represents resourcefulness, preparation, wisdom and domestic ingenuity. It is love in a jar! I hope to post more about canning this year...it will pale in comparison to these blogs, but I'll post some love in a jar Shalom Farm style anyway. :-)

And if that wasn't enough- here is a folk song to send you over the edge! :-)





Peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin
Supper's ready, everybody come on in
Taste a little of the summer,
Taste a little of the summer,
You can taste a little of the summer
my grandma's put it all in jars.

Well, there's a root cellar, fruit cellar down below
Watch you head now, and down you go

Maybe you're weary an' you don't give a damn
I bet you never tasted her blackberry jam.

Ah, she's got magic in her - you know what I mean
She puts the sun and rain in with her green beans.

What with the snow and the economy and ev'ry'thing,
I think I'll just stay down here and eat until spring.

When I go to see my grandma I gain a lot of weight
With her dear hands she gives me plate after plate.
She cans the pickles, sweet & dill
She cans the songs of the whippoorwill
And the morning dew and the evening moon
'N' I really got to go see her pretty soon
'Cause these canned goods I buy at the store
Ain't got the summer in them anymore.

You bet, grandma, as sure as you're born
I'll take some more potatoes and a thunderstorm.

Let those December winds bellow and blow,
I'm as warm as a July tomato.

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