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Use this dry-cured ham recipe to preserve your homegrown pork. If your family is like my own, you have an appreciation for foods both simply provided and fine in flavor. No other preserved food on our farmstead better exemplifies our values of thrift, conservation, and reverence for our work and land than aged ham. While […]
Learn about the different pickling methods you can try: Vinegar Pickles for canning; Quick Refrigerator Pickles, or Fermented Pickles from Kirsten K. Shockey, Guest Blogger for Lehmans.com What is the difference between fermenting and pickling? It is a common question. In a way, it is just as much a semantics question as it is a […]
Discover the joys of making homemade pickles in the summer with fresh garden vegetables! Your family will love these basic pickles recipes! by Dori Fritzinger. Lehman’s Hardware Summertime brings us the freshest produce of the year. Now is the time to put up some of the bounty for the cold winter days! Pickled cauliflower, cucumbers, and […]
As a vegetable farmer, all season long I’m confronted with too much abundance — it’s absolutely overwhelming. In winter, though, it can feel like the opposite if I don’t prepare and preserve food. So the question for me is, how can I manage the abundance of summer so that I can enjoy it into the […]
A few nights ago, we canned our own tomato juice. We found out that it is very efficient and easy! Discover the three reasons why you should can tomato juice every year. 3 Reasons You Should Can Tomato Juice Reason #1: Tomatoes are EASY TO GROW! You can even grow them in containers if you don’t have room […]
Many today are nervous to use fermentation as a method of preserving their harvest simply because they are unfamiliar with it. Let’s shake that fear and dive into some fermenting basics to give you the confidence to preserve food the traditional way Though there is a lot of science behind the process of fermentation, it […]
Melanie from Road to the Farm shows us how to double stack a pressure canner for the most efficiency. How to Double Stack a Pressure Canner Video Transcript: I am getting ready to go out of town for a couple days. I’m leaving a couple kids with daddy and taking a kid or two with […]