I really enjoy collecting vintage jars. I love recycling to begin with, and finding a box of old jelly or pint jars at a yard sale or second-hand store is exciting! It seems that canning jars often ...

Throughout the summer, Extension educators received many calls concerning problems with canning red beets. Many people seem confused about canning plain beets in water versus pickled beets canned in a ...

The summer of 2016 will certainly be remembered as a strange stretch of weather for all of the dedicated farmers growing crops. The recent rain and extreme humidity has trigged our farm asparagus ...

Beets, beautiful beets! I realize this sentiment isn’t widespread; people either love beets or firmly loathe them. Beets have a distinctly sweet, earthy taste owed to the organic bacteria geosmin and ...

When I was younger, Good Fridays were always set aside for dying eggs at my grandma’s house. Her kitchen would be permeated with the odor of vinegar before 8 a.m. An enormous enamel canning pot would ...