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Can It!, Hobby Farm Home

Learn to preserve jams, pickles, salsas, and more with this practical guide from the editors of Hobby Farm Homes—includes a hundred plus recipes!

Can It! gives readers a contemporary perspective on this traditional kitchen art. Now you never have to let your garden surplus or farmers market bounty go to waste! Filled with nearly two hundred color photographs and illustrations, this detailed beginner's guide takes the reader step-by-step through the process of canning fruits and vegetables, emphasizing cost saving, sustainability, and food safety. 

From canning tomatoes and squash to preparing homemade salsas, relishes, and jellies, this book simplifies the processes so that even modern, busy people can find time to do it themselves—and enjoy the fruits of their labors!

Jackie Parente

Jackie Callahan Parente is a freelance writer living in a suburb outside Hartford, Connecticut. She’s worked with words as writer, editor, tech writer, and food writer for more years than she’d care to admit. Food writing blends her love of words with her passion and pleasure in gardening, cooking, home food preservation, and eating locally and sustainably. A member of Slow Food USA and Canning Across America, she brings to Can It! experience garnered over several decades of preserving food at home. In addition to this book, she authors a popular food blog (Raspberries, Rabbits, and Rutabagas), and offers classes in home food preservation. Jackie has owned her own freelance writing company— Editorial Services, LLC—since 1996.

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