Audubon, Minn. The Anderson family may have found the secret recipe for family bonding: dill pickles. The eight siblings, originally from Lowry, Minn., pack family fun into hundreds of jars and just ...

“Pickling is amazing! A pickle on every plate!” the teacher exclaimed. Ernest Miller, who teaches the canning and preserving course that’s in its fourth week, does not necessarily mean cucumber discs ...

While canning—such as making jams and preserves—is always a wonderful way to preserve and store your summer fruits and vegetables for the cold months to come, it's not the only preservation technique.

GRATTAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A bumper crop of cucumbers has prompted Heffron Farms to open its fields up to the public, offering two days of free u-pick in addition to a free pickle canning class and a ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2020. Learning to preserve had long been on my bucket list. No one in my family or the neighborhood had taken me under their canning wing, and it ...

There are easy ways to make pickles. Our friend Daniel Neman has a video on how to make Quickles (quick pickles). But those last in the refrigerator just a few weeks. We had a bigger cucumber problem ...

My grandmother’s refrigerator was tiny. Space was at a premium, and the freezer only held an ice cube tray. She spent labor-intensive hours canning, storing the results on shelves in the garage. The ...

My garden — more correctly, my husband’s garden — was overflowing with cucumbers. Lots of tomatoes and peppers, too, along with lesser amounts of carrots, eggplant, Egyptian spinach, zucchini and the ...