Food Preservation

As God teaches us, so are we called to teach others. So yesterday my husband and I went out to teach at Deep River Folk School. He taught fermentation, and I taught a class on preserving food with Harvey Harman. I got real joy from seeing others interested in preserving their own food, and I learn so much from teaching others. We started out with a lesson in growing what you like to eat and using what you grow and made some pesto sauce with cream cheese out of freshly grown basil and garlic. We went over drying foods by dehydration, by rubber banding herbs to hang, and by stringing such as cayenne pepper wreaths and leather breeches. We got to taste dried figs, apples, canteloupe and others.

Then we learned how to can 7 quarts of pears. Using the right tools helped, such as the apple peeler/corer.