How are you an expert?

Farmfresh

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Just pick a spot and get started. Learn one task and learn to do it well then pick a different skill. Step by step you will get more and more handy at tasks. That is how I learned.

When we first got married we lived in a one bedroom town home with only a tiny patch of earth on the side that I could plant "flowers" in. My flowers were usually things like a pumpkin or tomatoes. LOL Since I had no space for a real garden I spent my time learning other tasks. Living there is where I learned to knit, crochet, can, pickle, make jams, bake breads and really learned to cook from scratch.

Self sufficiency and homesteading are a frame of mind. It doesn't matter who you are, how young or old or where you live, any one can do it!
 

baymule

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Even when I lived in an apartment, I bought bushels of peas and corn to put in the freezer. I love to can, freeze and dehydrate the garden produce. It is so nice to open a jar, take a bag out of the freezer or pour some hot water over dehydrated hash browns and enjoy what we grew in the summer.
 

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Last year that was the plan but the garden didn't turn out. I'm hoping if a garden gets planted this year it will do so much better and I'll be able to give canning/jarring a try.
I really should know how to can/jar seeing how my great-grandmother (passed away 1995) did a lot of canning/jarring when I was growing up in her household but I never wanted any part of it.
 

Country homesteader

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I think there's already plenty of right equipment here packed away I just have to find it but also the garden needs to be planted so it will produce but we are still getting frost- woke up to it this morning.
 

lcertuche

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Okay I'm not an expert but this is my grape juice and strawberry preserves in the first picture and pickles in the second. What a comfort it is to know there is food in your house. I will be trying to get some grape jam made soon and grape jelly. Never tried grape jam before so it'll be interesting. With a housefull of teenagers and grands I know someone will eat something.
 
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