Put Up and Eat Up: Canning and Food Preservation
Posted on August 1, 2016
by Linda K
Ramping up your food production skills may help ramp up your dietary options as well. Why not learn more about preparation, drying, canning and preservation? It puts you in charge of what’s in your food and provides more choices regarding the types of foods you can try. Best of all, you will no longer be limited to a relationship with the long-distance-shipped, salt/sugar/simple carb/fat-packed “food grid” of modern society. Time and other constraints may keep you largely on the grid, but you can explore your options by developing new skills, especially in food preservation.
Canning and Preservation
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Food Fermentation
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Food Drying
If you REALLY want to step off the grid, check out The Solar Food Dryer by Eben Fodor, part of a series of books by Mother Earth News. Solar drying (with a possible electrical backup) is a preservation technique that uses the least amount of manufactured energy. The book doesn’t go deep into drying techniques or recipes, but gives several detailed plans for building your own solar drier (even tips on how to make one from recycled materials), and explaining the principles of how they work in various climates. |
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Food Storage
Closer to home, the Lucas County OSU Extension Service will answer your food preservation questions at 419-213-4254 (Mon-Fri, 9-4:30 PM), or the OSU Food Safety Hotline will do the same at 1-800-725-2751 (Mon-Fri, 9-5 PM). |
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Featured Image Credit: Foodlander (flickr, Creative Commons license).
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