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If you’re new to canning and preserving, Jill has some practical and helpful tips. These tips don’t deal with individual recipes. Rather, they focus more on the canning process.

I think some people stress out over canning. This article should help. Jill also includes links to her tutorials about water bath canning and pressure canning.

Click on the Six Tips for No-Stress Canning & Preserving link below to read the entire article.

Six Tips for No-Stress Canning & Preserving

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JES shares 5 helpful canning tips and tricks. Here’s what you’ll learn:

• What you should do if you have hard water.
• How to make your own water canner
• What to do if you have extra space in your canner when preserving
• What to do with your leftover water-bath water
• What NOT to do with your canning rack

Click on the 5 Interesting Canning Tips and Tricks link below to see JES’s canning tips and tricks.

5 Interesting Canning Tips and Tricks

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Dehydrating is another great way to preserve your garden produce for the cooler months. Fruits, herbs and veggies can all be dehydrated.

In this article, Debra explains how to make a food dehydrator that uses the sun as its heat source. If you get confused at all about the build instructions, just click on the “See the colored image on this page” link for a diagram that really helps. This solar dehydrator doesn’t have racks or shelves. However you could easily ass some small wooden blocks on the interior of the dehydrator to support racks or screens.

Click on the How to Build a Solar Dehydrator link below to read the entire tutorial.

How to Build a Solar Dehydrator

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This is an amazing collection of fruit and vegetable canning recipes that I found on the Creative Nirvana website. For almost every fruit and vegetable, there are multiple recipes. If you see a recipe you like, just click on the link and you’ll see the complete recipe. For example here are a few of the recipes you’ll find:

Strawberries

• Basic Strawberry Jam with Pectin
• Chocolate Strawberry Sauce
• Low Sugar Strawberry Syrup
• Pectin Free Strawberry Preserves
• Strawberries in Red Wine
• Strawberry Key Lime Jam
• Strawberry Lemon Marmalade
• Strawberry Lemonade (sweetened with honey)
• Strawberry Limeade (sweetened with honey)
• Strawberry Pie Filling
• Strawberry Rhubarb Jam

 Hot Peppers

• Jalapeno Salsa
• Salsa Verde with Red Jalapenos
• Sweet and Spicy Pickles

It’s an amazing and very useful collection of canning recipes. Click on the Over 50 Fruit and Vegetable Canning Recipes link below to see all 50+ recipes.

Over 50 Fruit and Vegetable Canning Recipes

This is a recipe for Italian Plum Jam by Rick of City Boy Hens.  Italian plum jam has a wonderful color and is delicious.  Rick walks you through the process of making the jam with clear directions and step-by-step photographs.

I have to say this is one of the best tutorial on safe and proper canning methods that I’ve read.  Very well-done!

How To Make Homemade Italian Plum Jam

Rick of City Boy Hens shares a number of tips to make sure your canned peaches remain firm and bright in color.  He reveals which type of peaches he uses and also shares his secret ingredient.  He then provides a tutorial with photographs that explains how to best cut the peaches, make the syrup, prepare and fill the jars and how to process in the canner.  His peaches do look beautiful.  Very nice recipe!

How To Preserve Peaches so They are Firm & Yummy

Patsy explains her technique for preserving  blueberries so that you can enjoy them into the Fall and Winter.  It’s a nice, simple method.

How to Preserve Blueberries