Why We Return to Canning Our Food Year After Year

"Every time you open a jar of home-canned food, you relive your relationships of growing, sharing, and supporting."

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Why We Can Chances are you have at least one Mason jar kicking around your house. Maybe it's serving as an ad-hoc drinking glass, a flower vase, or a pencil holder. But it was not so long ago that in many American households, canning jars were vessels of necessity and self-reliance. They made it possible to suspend the abundance of victory garden harvest while freeing up rations to feed troops on the fronts in World Wars I and II; they were the unspoken second act of growing food for your family. Our whimsical associations with canning jars prove that in our time, we can because we want to, not because we have to. Canning is a privilege, a pleasure, and a passion that connects generations. Read More More Than Just Food What Aunt Marty Taught Me About Canning and Life Writer Annette Thurmon revisits the memory of her aunt's basement canning closet and finds the foundation of her values. Read More "Jam According to Daniel" Has a Story for Every Jam After making and selling nearly 100,000 jars of jam, Daniel Perry has lots of stories to share. Read More How a Mother Preserves Memories in Jars of Jam Writer Sally Vargas cherishes those sometimes-hazy moments of motherhood because time can't be stopped. Read More I Made One Jam Every Single Day This Summer—Here's What I Learned Nancy Hopkins spent her summer making jam—week after week until she ran out of fruit. Here's what she learned. Read More FOLLOW US Unsubscribe This email was sent to vnuyda.rkitchen@blogger.com  |  Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe here Dotdash Meredith Corporation, 28 Liberty St, New York, NY 10005 ©2022. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy  |  Terms of Service