10 Best Home Canning Tips for Beginners Encourage Preserving Local Food

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - July 31, 2013 - PRLog -- People who want local sustainably grown food know that home canning is a crucial heirloom skill, but novices are often intimidated by do-it-yourself food preservation. Tracy Falbe owner of Falbe Publishing and author of the Home Canning Guide for Everyone Who Eats understands that taking the first step is the hardest.

“I used to be interested in home canning but leery of doing it myself,” Falbe said. “But people who already did it always insisted it was easy, so I eventually tried it and became addicted to the results.”

That was six years ago. She has canned food for friends and family every year since, given a seminar at the Grange in Chico, California, appeared on the podcast More Hip Than Hippie, and published her home canning guide and sold thousands of ebooks at retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes since 2011.

The 10 Best Home Canning Tips for Beginners that Falbe placed on her website http://www.falbepublishing.com/canning/10-home-canning-tips.html provide practical advice to help people start canning. The tips show that the steps involved in home canning are simple and easily performed by anyone with basic cooking skills.

Falbe knows that people worry about canning food because it could spoil and be unsafe to eat. She used to have the same concern but learned that safety can be guaranteed by following modern canning directions and precisely meeting the cooking times and temperatures required by recipes.

Many pleasures are derived from home canning. Recipes for pickles, relishes, chutneys, soups, and sauces that are not commercially available can be made. The taste and quality of the food far exceeds anything available at a supermarket. And home canners support local food systems with their gardens and patronage of farmers’ markets.

Home canning can improve people’s lifestyles in small and large ways. It can become a fun hobby to enjoy with friends and relatives during apple season or evolve into a pillar of a self reliant lifestyle that produces a large portion of a family’s annual food needs.

“To get started pick a simple project like making jam or canning peach slices,” Falbe said.

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