Fermenting and Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning

Fermentation Workshop with Sandor Katz DVD

©2012 Shanna Ohmes

Fermenting foods has been a part of food preservation for thousands of years before modern canning and freezing methods became available.  Fermenting foods increases the nutritional value, is easy to do, uses little resources and increases the good bacteria back into your intestinal tract. 

What is Fermentation?

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5 Ways to Use Herbs to Keep Warm in the Winter—Herbal Winter Warmers

sleep herbs

©2011 Shanna Ohmes

During the cold winter months, especially when those cold fronts blast through, it can be hard to keep warm.  To keep warm during these short days and long winter nights, add these 5 herbal winter warmers to keep the chill at bay.

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How to Preserve Cabbage—Freeze, Ferment and Dry Your Bumper Cabbage Crop

Harsch Fermenting Crock

©2011 Shanna Ohmes

Preserving cabbage by freezing, fermenting or drying is a great way to learn how to be self-sufficient and put food up for the winter.  Cabbage is packed full of nutrients and can be used in soups, stews, trail mix, casseroles and other dishes. 

Freezing Cabbage:  Trim outer leaves, core and quarter . . . → Read More: How to Preserve Cabbage—Freeze, Ferment and Dry Your Bumper Cabbage Crop

How to Make Soap

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©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Have you tried to make soap using magazine articles and books as a guide, but had less than favorable results with the whole soapmaking process?  In this How to Make Soap video guide, you can see the process from start to finish.  Here are just a few of the questions that . . . → Read More: How to Make Soap

Home Canning and Preserving Food for Winter… Don’t Put Your Canner Away Yet!

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©2010 Shanna Ohmes

So you had a large garden and canned all you could before the first freeze.  Or, the garden didn’t produce enough for whatever reasons and you’re ready to move on to the holidays.  Don’t put that canner in storage just yet!  Pressure canning food is not just for the garden or . . . → Read More: Home Canning and Preserving Food for Winter… Don’t Put Your Canner Away Yet!

The Ultimate Guide to Canning and Preserving

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©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Have you wanted to learn how to can and preserve food from your garden, the farmers market or even from the produce aisle in your supermarket?

The Ultimate Guide to Canning and Preserving by Victoria Stewart will show you how to preserve your own food.  She also offers a Free Canning . . . → Read More: The Ultimate Guide to Canning and Preserving

Buffalo Spaghetti Squash

The Compleat Squash

©2009 Shanna Ohmes

Buffalo spaghetti squash is one of my favorite recipes for using spaghetti squash.  I love spaghetti, but I prefer a low-carb alternative to the white flour and whole grain noodles.  Spaghetti squash fits right in, and I get all the beta-carotene goodies with it.  Winter squash is a superb food for . . . → Read More: Buffalo Spaghetti Squash

Fruit of the Gods: Ways to Eat, Enjoy and Preserve Apples

©2010 Shanna Ohmes

Fall is here and what better way to celebrate the season than with the fruit of the gods?  Take a trip to a ‘pick your own’ orchard or farmers market and bring home your bounty.  Apples are abundant in the fall, and an easy fruit to preserve for the winter.  . . . → Read More: Fruit of the Gods: Ways to Eat, Enjoy and Preserve Apples

Ginger Herbal Honey Remedy for Colds and Flu

Natural Cold and Flu Remedies by Shanna Ohmes

©2009 Shanna Ohmes

Have you ever had ginger tea when you are down with a cold or flu?  If you have, then you know how good it tastes and how it warms your whole body up.  Ginger gets the blood moving to warm you up and the mucous moving to help rid your body . . . → Read More: Ginger Herbal Honey Remedy for Colds and Flu

How to Make Lacto-Fermented Pickles

©2009 Shanna Ohmes

Lacto-fermented pickles are easy and fun to make.  They are delicious and go with sausages and hamburgers.  The taste is superb and you don’t get tired of it like you do with vinegar processed pickles.

Lacto-fermented pickles are healthier than commercially processed pickles.  The lactobacilli bacteria are essential to help with . . . → Read More: How to Make Lacto-Fermented Pickles

Sauerkraut and Pickle Crocks

Sauerkraut and Pickling Crocks and Supplies

Cultures for Health

Cultures for Health