How are you an expert?

[Farmfresh]

Just pick a spot and get started. Learn one task and learn to do it well then pick a different skill. Step by step you will get more and more handy at tasks. That is how I learned.

When we first got married we lived in a one bedroom town home with only a tiny patch of earth on the side that I could plant "flowers" in. My flowers were usually things like a pumpkin or tomatoes. LOL Since I had no space for a real garden I spent my time learning other tasks. Living there is where I learned to knit, crochet, can, pickle, make jams, bake breads and really learned to cook from scratch.

Self sufficiency and homesteading are a frame of mind. It doesn't matter who you are, how young or old or where you live, any one can do it!

 

[NH Homesteader]

I wish I could "like" that more than once!

 

[baymule]

Even when I lived in an apartment, I bought bushels of peas and corn to put in the freezer. I love to can, freeze and dehydrate the garden produce. It is so nice to open a jar, take a bag out of the freezer or pour some hot water over dehydrated hash browns and enjoy what we grew in the summer.

 

[Mini Horses]

Food preserved is like $$$ in the bank! It's comforting, too. My favorite place at my grandparents houses were the cellars. Barns were next

 

[Country homesteader]

Last year that was the plan but the garden didn't turn out. I'm hoping if a garden gets planted this year it will do so much better and I'll be able to give canning/jarring a try.
I really should know how to can/jar seeing how my great-grandmother (passed away 1995) did a lot of canning/jarring when I was growing up in her household but I never wanted any part of it.

 

[sumi]

We have a few canning experts here and there are some threads on canning things here:

https://www.sufficientself.com/forums/the-self-sufficient-kitchen-from-recipes-to-proc.21/

You're welcome to start a new discussion with your questions too! I'm going to try my hand at canning again myself as soon as I have the right equipment.

 

[Country homesteader]

I think there's already plenty of right equipment here packed away I just have to find it but also the garden needs to be planted so it will produce but we are still getting frost- woke up to it this morning.

 

[Country homesteader]

I just started a thread "My hobby-Plastic Canvas needlepoint" under random ramblings. I'm curious if there's anybody else who has the same kind of hobby as me.

 

[lcertuche]

Okay I'm not an expert but this is my grape juice and strawberry preserves in the first picture and pickles in the second. What a comfort it is to know there is food in your house. I will be trying to get some grape jam made soon and grape jelly. Never tried grape jam before so it'll be interesting. With a housefull of teenagers and grands I know someone will eat something.

 

[Country homesteader]

Are those homemade bread and butter pickles? If so, I'll be right over to get some seeing how they are my favorite. LOL