Top Canning and Preserving Recipes

Growing a garden has always been a big part of our summer. We plant a large garden each year. The time and work it takes is so rewarding when collecting all the bountiful produce. I love to grow different fruits and vegetables to enjoy fresh from the garden. There's nothing like biting into a fresh tomato right off the vine from the garden! Or fresh green beans straight from the garden for dinner! Do you have a favorite from the garden?

When planning and planting our garden each year we plant extra seeds and plants so that we are able to canning and freezing any excess if the garden does well.  Preserving the garden is a great way to enjoy homegrown produce all year.

Gardening is becoming more and more popular. Not only for the joy and love for gardening, but ultimately for the ability to feed their families better tasting and healthier food as well as saving money.

I have rounded up several canning and freezing recipes from my farmgirl blogger friends and myself that are great ways to preserve food from our garden.

Top Canning and Preserving Recipes 

Canning Recipes

Canning Green Beans from The Backroad Life

Grandma's Catsup from These Old Cookbooks

Blackberry Jam from Kimmi's Dairyland 

Peach Salsa from Chasing Saturday's

Zucchini Relish from Farmwife Crafts

Canning Tomato Juice from The Backroad Life

Raspberry Jam from Kimmi's Dairyland

Freezing Recipes

Strawberry Freezer Jam from The Backroad Life

Homemade Applesauce from The Backroad Life

Freezing Peas from The Backroad Life

Here are a couple ways to freeze sweet corn: 

Freezing sweet corn from Beyer Beware

Freezing sweet corn from The Farmwife Feeds

Freezing Blackberries from My Fearless Kitchen

Here are a few canning and freezing tips.

Canning Safety from My Fearless Kitchen 

Canning a lot at one time from My Fearless Kitchen

How to prevent freezer burn from My Fearless Kitchen

This post is sponsored by Indiana Soybean Alliance, but all thoughts/opinions are my own. 

Top 9 Thanksgiving Desserts

The month of November is here. Thanksgiving.  A month we celebrate being Thankful! Time to think about what we will bring to Thanksgiving celebrations with family and friends. Here is a collaboration of delicious desserts from myself and some farmwife friends that are perfect for that Thanksgiving feast.

The fall season is also the harvest season! For many of us we are busy helping bring in the bounty, whether it be directly in the field running equipment to harvest or preparing meals to feed our farmers on a daily basis and everything in between.

Fall season on the farm means a final harvest in the produce fields, harvesting the last of the seasons' vegetables.

Fall season on the farm means preparing for winter so livestock are well cared for. Silage may be chopped and packed, the last cutting of hay may be baled, repairs on barns, fixing fences while the weather is nice.

November, the end of fall season, when all the hard work comes together and looking back at the whole year and can celebrate the growing season. Thankful.

We celebrate with a bounty of food at our Thanksgiving meal. Just like we celebrate bringing our harvest in!

Enjoy these delicious desserts to top off your Thanksgiving meal as we celebrate another year of growing crops and raising livestock.

Pumpkin Pie from Stacy at The Backroad Life

Cake Mix Pumpkin Caramel Cookies from MaryBeth at The Fearless Kitchen

Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing from Liz at Farmwife Cooks

Pumpkin Chiffon Pie from Leah at Beyer Beware

Easy Vanilla Sheet Cake from Jeanette at Fencerow To Fencerow

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins from Megan at These Old Cookbooks

Pumpkin Pull Apart Bread from Crystal at Chasing Saturdays

Pumpkin Hand Pies from Jent at Farmwife Feeds

Apple Cream Pie from Stacy at The Backroad Life

This post is sponsored by Indiana Soybean Alliance, but all thoughts/opinions are my own.