Canning room

rkober's Project

Cool canning room :)

Canning shelves in spare bedroom

Properly harvesting, storing, and curing potatoes can make all the difference between a potato harvest lasting only a few months and lasting all winter long. It is worth extra effort and steps to preserve this staple crop.

Tired of scrambling around on canning day? Learn how to organize your canning supplies so you can take inventory and find what you need!

This post contains affiliate links. All opinions are my own. Please see FCC disclosure for full information. Thank you for supporting this site! Since we moved to our mountaintop homestead in the summer of 2016, we've planned to create a canning kitchen - a place set aside just for preserving our homegrown food. The original structure on our homestead, which appears to date from the 1950s or 60s, seemed the logical choice. Until recent years, people had lived in it, so while it doesn't have…

In 2003, I decided to build myself a cold storage room in my home basement. Homesteaders name this a Positive Cold Room. The goal was to store garden kitchen…

Inside My Canning Pantry

I took this picture back in October after canning season had come to an end. I am convinced there is nothing better than seeing full cabinets of food you grew, harvested, and preserved yourself. We have two cabinets like this we store our canned food in as well as our pantry. • We have already gone through so much of our canned food. We rely on it in the winter to make quick easy meals. I am so thankful we have it to fall back on but now I am anxiously planning our garden for this year. My…