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    Canning & Dehydrating Off The Grid

    Learn about canning and dehydrating off the grid. Includes tips on canning, preserving, dehydrating, and smoking wild game meat, berries, foraged fruits and veggies, and garden produce.

    • three jars of pickled vegetables on a wooden counter
      Pickled Vegetables for Beginners
    • A stack of books on the left and nine best canning and preserving books arranged vertically on the right side against a wooden background.
      Best Canning and Preserving Books
    • Canned vegetables in jars with fresh vegetables outdoors
      Easy Ways to Get Started Canning Right Now
    • Smoked Game Meat in a Bowl.
      Smoking & Dehydrating Game Meat
    • Homemade applesauce in a mason jar on a wooden tabletop with a sliced apple and cinnamon sticks
      How to Make Homestyle Homemade Applesauce
    • a single mason jar with dehydrated orange slices on a wooden table
      Canning, Preserving and Dehydrating Food
    • A jar of dark balsamic onion relish sits next to a plate with crackers generously topped with the same rich jam, all elegantly placed on a rustic wooden surface.
      Balsamic Onion Relish Recipe for Canning
    • A picture of a can of fish surrounded by fresh vegetables
      How to Can Fresh Fish For Beginners
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      Making Traditional Hardtack: Survival Food Recipe
    • a picture of dehydrated food and apples on a dehydrating carousel
      Food You Should Not Dehydrate
    • Canning jars with burlap and twine
      How to Can Food: 50 Tips for Beginners
    • Collage of three rhubarb jam recipes.
      Rhubarb Jam Canning Recipes to Stock Your Pantry
    • The Bernardin/Ball Compete Book of Home Preserving 2020 edition on a wooden background
      The Bernardin Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
    • Quick and Easy Garlic Dill Pickle Canning Recipe
      Quick and Easy Garlic Dill Pickle Canning Recipe
    • Maple bacon bourbon jam in jar.
      Maple Bacon Bourbon Jam
    • Dandelion Jelly in Mason Jar
      Dandelion Jelly Recipe
    • Chicken strips on dehydrator.
      Chicken Jerky Recipe
    • Mason jar of homemade strawberry jam.
      How to Make and Can Strawberry Jam
    • 5 mason jars with pickled vegetables and preserves on a wooden counter
      Pickling for Beginners: How to Get Started
    • Making cucumber berry fruit salsa.
      How to Store Cucumbers from The Garden
    • two white stone crocks with a brick wall background
      How to Use a Fermenting Crock
    • Homemade Strawberry Syrup in glass jars
      Strawberry Syrup Recipe
    • A picture of 3 pieces of pemmican made with game meat and a black background.
      The Ultimate Survival Food: Making Pemmican with Game Meat
    • Fresh Garden carrots, lettuce, parsley and beets on a wooden table
      How to Store Your Harvest Without a Root Cellar
    • wooden bowls of dehydrated fruits, including papaya and pomelo
      Dehydrating Foods: How to Get Started
    • How to Make No-Cook Jam text overlay on collage of jam images
      How to Make No Cook Jam
    • Water bath canning tomato sauce.
      How to Start Water Bath Canning
    • Dehydrated eggs in jar with basket of fresh eggs behind.
      How to Dehydrate Eggs for Long Term Home Storage and Use
    • A cutting board with carrots, onions, and garlic on it.
      How to Ferment Vegetables
    • Farm fresh eggs in a carton with plaid placemat behind
      How to Preserve Eggs
    • four stacks of ziploc bags filled with frozen vegetables
      Frozen Veggies: How to Freeze Fresh Vegetables
    • 15 Ways to preserve tomatoes text overlay on image of fresh tomatoes
      15+ Ways to Preserve Tomatoes
    • Fresh blueberries in a basket on a table
      7 Ways to Preserve Blueberries
    • a picture of two smoked fish on a platter with a grey background
      How To Smoke Fish
    • a picture of dozens of dried fish on a grate with a blue sky background
      How to Make Dried Fish
    • A black charcoal smoker with smoke coming out of the top dampener
      How To Use a Charcoal Smoker
    • 4 ball mason jars with different preservatives and golden lids.
      Ball Mason Jars: How to Use Them (Safely) in Your Home

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    I'm Sarita. My family and I lived off the grid for 11 years in Canada's far north. If I did it, you can too.

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