Preserve the Season’s Harvest with Canning

Who doesn’t love enjoying the season’s freshest and most delicious foods throughout the year? Preserving your food with canning, drying, or freezing it at home helps you save money, eat healthier food, and enjoy the independent feeling that comes with doing this yourself. Plus, many people make new friends in the process of learning to grow, cook, and preserve their own food. In this podcast, I’ll interview Carrie Kenner, a certified Food Preservation Educator, who will help us understand the HOW, WHY, AND WHAT about food preservation.

Carrie Kenner’s collection of her home-canned goodness. This could be you!

• What can we do to preserve the abundance of the overflowing produce in our gardens and at farmer’s markets?
• Why would people can their own food, when grocery store shelves are overflowing with every type of canned food imaginable?
• Why do we get started with food preservation in a way that is easy and inexpensive?
• What equipment do you need to get started?
• What foods work best for which methods of preserving?
• What recipes are reliable, and what recipes need to be avoided?
• Many people are afraid of canning, worried about botulism or spoilage.  How real are those fears?
• What are some common problems one might encounter in canning, and how can it be avoided or corrected?
• What are the best ways to approach freezing and drying?
• What are your recommended resources for getting started, and where can we learn more?

Carrie Kenner, Certified Food Preservation Educator

Carrie Kenner is a certified Food Preservation Educator who lives, plays, and grows in Seattle, WA.  You can find out more about Carrie Kenner at www.bigbellyservices.com. She raises produce, chickens and ducks at her urban homestead, and helps raise families through her work as a childbirth educator and birth doula.  Growing food & growing families is her passion.  She grows, cans, ferments, dries, cooks, bakes and composts food – all on her small urban lot.  Carrie believes that healthy and nourishing food isn’t a privilege, it’s a right.  Her vision is for all people to have access to good food right in their own backyards or neighborhoods, and that they know how to grow it, store it, and prepare it so they may nourish themselves into the beautiful beings that we all are intended to be.  Growing as much of her own food as possible to last throughout the year is one way she manifests that vision for herself.  Carrie invites you to join her and learn one new way to create your own food supply each year. Email Carrie: carrie@bigbellyservices.com.

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