So you’ve got your garden up and running, and you’ve got produce to sustain you. Perhaps you give some away to friends and neighbours, but even the most organised gardeners suffer from the “glut” and end up with a surplus.
What do you do? You preserve it for future use.
You may choose to make preserves like [...]
It will soon be the time of year when blackberries are ripe for picking. I love blackberries, but I’ve never tried making Blackberry Jam, so this year I decided to give it a go. Raspberry and Strawberry jams are my favourites, but you can preserve pretty much all fruit and vegetables by turning them into [...]
Preservation is the key to storing your produce until you need to use it. There are many ways to process your produce, such as pickling, smoking, and freezing, however one that seems to have lost it’s popularity in the UK, but which is well used in other parts of the world is dehydrating.
Dehydrating is [...]