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Food preservation is the process of treating and handling food to stop or slow down spoilage (loss of quality, edibility or nutritional value) and thus allow for longer storage.

There are many traditional methods of preserving food that limit the energy inputs and reduce carbon footprint. Maintaining or creating nutritional value, texture and flavor is an important aspect of food preservation.

The main purpose of preserving food is to is to prolong the life of the food you store. When possible, use the method that retains most nutrients and use the least amount of wood fuel.

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Back to Basics Home Canning Kit

Back to Basics 286 5-Piece Home Canning Kit
Capture summer fruits and vegetables at their prime for enjoyment throughout the year by canning at home. This five-piece canning kit provides all the essential tools needed for getting started–a jar lifter, a magnetic lid lifter, a canning funnel, a jar-lid wrench, and kitchen tongs. Read More >>

Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving

Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today
Ball Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies, the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. Now the experts at Ball have written a book destined to become the “bible” of home preserving. Read More >>

book Canning for a New Generation

Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
Organized by season and illustrated with beautiful photographs, it offers detailed instructions and recipes for making more than 150 canned, pickled, dried, and frozen foods, as well as 50 inventive recipes for dishes using these foods. Read More >>

Earth Wave Living

Earth Wave Living
From providing a solar panel system for your home, to long term food storage, to storing and pumping your own water, to hand cranked solar radios, to kitchen appliances and products, to gardening products and seeds, to emergency preparedness medical first aid kits, nearly all aspects of self sufficient living can be found through our store. Read More >>

Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook

Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis
What if your life was disrupted by a natural disaster, food or water supply contamination, or any other type of emergency? Do you have the essentials for you and your family? Read More >>

Heirloom Seeds

Non Hybrid Seeds
Non-Hybrid or Open-Pollinated seeds allow the gardener to collect seeds from a crop for future planting. Hybrid seeds do not. All Heirloom Organics Seed Packs are 100% Non-Hybrid AND Non-GMO (genetically modified) and specially sealed for long term storage. Use now AND save for emergency. Read More >>

Nature Hills Nursery

Nature Hills
Many of us want to cut down on our carbon imprint by minimizing our waste but we have limited space living in an apartment. Luckily there are lots of kitchen composters that are perfect for such situations. Shopping at Nature Hills from your personal computer is simple and easy. You can shop whenever it is convenience for you, 24 hours a day. Read More >>

Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation

Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation
Hard times aren’t just coming, they are here already. The recent economic collapse has seen millions of North Americans move from the middle class to being poor, and from poor to hungry. Read More >>

Norpro Home Canning Set

Norpro 7-Piece Home Canning Set
7-piece canning set provides the essentials needed for canning at home. Provides all the essential tools needed for getting started canning your own food. Measures approximately 10 by 8 by 24 inches. Steel canning rack holds 7 pint- or quart-size jars; sterilizing rack holds 12 lids. Read More >>

Home Preserving Guide

Put ‘em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling
An extensive Techniques section includes complete how-to for every kind of preserving: refrigerating and freezing, air- and oven-drying, cold- and hot-pack canning, and pickling. Read More >>

economically viable sustainable farming techniques

Rodale Institute
The Rodale Institute outreaches to farmers throughout North America and the world to promote economically viable sustainable farming techniques that benefit human health and the environment. Read More >>

Mycorrhizae & Beneficial Soil Biology

Supreme Growers
The Supreme Growers philosophy centers around using Mycorrhizae & Beneficial Soil Biology to grow huge, root masses, that hold enormous amounts of water and nutrients. The More water and nutrition a plant can hold, the healthier it will be. Read More >>

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