Tag: Canning Tue, May 21, 2013
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Canning Classes and Supplies
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Traci Hukill
Anyone with a jones to can, pickle or otherwise preserve the summer harvest should make a pilgrimage to Mountain Feed and Farm Supply (9550 Hwy 9, Ben Lomond; open daily), where an entire building has been dedicated to food preservation supplies. Canning kettles, pressure cookers, tongs, funnels, thermometers and a gorgeous selection of Kerr, Weck and Quattro Stagione jars will make you want to quit your job and move in. If that’s too far to travel, their booth at the Aptos Farmers Market (6500 Soquel Dr., Saturdays 8am-noon) will most likely cover your needs.
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A Few Canning Rules
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff
Keep everything clean when you’re composing the jars, but don’t worry about sanitizing. The tomatoes aren’t sanitized, after all. Everything is sanitized in the hot water bath.
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Hot Tomatoes And Canning Class
Business Aug 14, 2012, by Lily Stoicheff
It’s 11am and I’m chopping my way through the largest pile of organic dry farmed tomatoes I’ve ever seen outside of a farmers market with nine other burgeoning homesteaders at Live Earth Farm outside of Watsonville. Jordan Champagne, our ringleader and canning queen at the Happy Girl Kitchen Co., is teaching us how to can tomatoes with the confidence, patience and optimism of a sage.
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