March 5, 2019

Old world self-sufficiency in a new world …

So much of our lives literally revolves around the kitchen. We eat all our meals together there, sharing the day’s challenges and successes. It served as the school room and the family room for playing games. Plans for the day and the future are discussed and solidified over food and drink. The bills get paid, records are kept and taxes figured there. Seeds are spread on the table while planning the garden and jars are sorted and filled there at harvest time. Quilts and clothes get cut and sewn on that table. Neighbors and friends are always welcome to share a cup of coffee and baked goods of the day. Wonderful memories reside in the kitchen while delightful new, little people come to add their chapters.

The right canning equipment for the home.

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Home Canning Supplies and Equipment: Everything you need for every crop – at great prices. The equipment required for home canning is an important investment for the production gardener. The investment made today is paid off by multitudes over the years. Being equipped to handle all types of crops is essential to filling the pantry. Canners and pressure canners are absolutely required. But for speed and large quantities, your other home canning equipment can make all the difference in the world.Specialty tools make preparing fruits and vegetables much quicker and

Old-style appliances for the modern kitchen.

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Hand operated kitchen appliances are made for today with yesterday’s design. In the 1700’s, all household chores were done without electric appliances or tools. As a homesteader, it’s not that you don’t use electricity it’s that you don’t have to. Our non electric appliances make food preparation for cooking or canning quick and efficient with minimal clean-up. If you have a generator as a backup for the grid, a fireplace as backup heat, a shovel as a backup for the snowblower, you need to give serious consideration to “backups” for

Why Storable Food?

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Home canned food can be stored for anywhere from a year to a decade depending on how acidic it is, if it’s heavily salted, or mostly sugar like jellies and preserves and how it is processed. Assuming that it was processed properly to begin with, canned and dried foods do not normally become unsafe when stored longer than the recommended time, but they eventually discolor, the nutritional value diminishes, the consistency changes and the flavor fades. Rotating home preserved food is very important.Legumes, grains, salt, sugar and powdered milk are the most common, least

The Homestead Kitchen?

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Whether it’s manual or electric, the right tool for the job saves a tremendous amount of time and makes big jobs manageable.Quality hand powered tools not only save time in food preparation, they are not dependent on electricity.We have hand powered appliances for grinding grain, stringing beans, peeling apples, pitting cherries, making sauces and much more. These wonderful non-electric ‘machines’ are so safe, easy and even fun to operate, you can engage the assistance of children.If you are tackling a large crop or attempting ‘mass production’, the use of electrical

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Old world self-sufficiency in a new world …

The right canning equipment for the home.

Old-style appliances for the modern kitchen.

Why Storable Food?

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