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Just 3 Beans

Welcome to March and our Three Bean Challenge! We need you to channel your inner Jack and the Beanstalk and use these beans to grow enough beans for you and your family to eat all Summer long. As the variety is called 'Enorma' there will probably be enough to freeze a few or make...

Leading the Way

At this time of year we are busy thinking of Christmas plans, things for our own family and what to make or gift to those further afield. At Rosie's Preserving School we try to present ideas for quick, easy and cost-effective preserves to make lots of different Christmas gifts for hampers, stockings, table gifts,...

Tomatoes for passata and ketchup

The Wonder that is the Tomato

Now that I have found great ways to preserve tomatoes that suit our family preferences (I didn't say faddiness!) I grow as many as possible. All kinds, all colours, all in a small plastic greenhouse and some outside mixed in with the flowers. And some in hanging baskets. And tall tins that had Christmas...

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Preserving Preserving

"If you learn, teach If you get, give" - Maya Angelou My hero, Maya Angelou. If I can't express what I feel I usually find that she has done it for me already, beautifully and kindly. There is so much that I feel about the current imbalances in our lives around the World -...

why pressure can food?

Why Pressure Can?

So, You Are Thinking of Pressure Canning? There are so many pressures (no pun intended) on us in modern life - family life, working life, money, time, and much more. There are many layers to all of these aspects - family life doesn't just mean children and spouse but aging parents who may need...

Jar Labeling Kits

You Are Your Best Thing Toni Morrison Your homemade preserves are special - unique in fact. Unlike anyone else's. With homemade preserves more comes out of the jar than goes in by way of ingredients. If you eat it yourself you have memories - a walk collecting wild blackberries, your friend gifting you a...

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