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PRESERVING FOOD

How To Make And Can Super Easy Salsa

August 29, 2020 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

jars of home canned salsa

If you love salsa, but don't have all the ingredients needed to make it from all fresh, you will love this recipe! It tastes great, has a lot less prep time, and comes together in a snap! Here's a recipe for making this delicious condiment and instructions on how to can salsa! Part of the goodness of having a tomato harvest is that you can make so many different products ...

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How to Make and Can Cherry BBQ Sauce

August 21, 2020 by Kristi Stone 2 Comments

cherry bbq sauce in a jar

When you think of cherries, maybe what comes to mind is eating them fresh, in a pie, or even as a jam. All of those are wonderful, but once you discover cherry bbq sauce, you will never forget it! Cherry BBQ Sauce to the Rescue Last year, Todd and I tried peach bbq sauce and fell in love. The marriage of fruity sweetness with the smoky and spicy herbs tasted perfect, ...

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How to Make Homemade Strawberry Jam {Safe and Easy}

August 6, 2020 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

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It's strawberry season and the fruit is fresh, sweet, and delicious! Making wine, syrup or just eaten raw, they are a wonderful summer treat! But don't forget to bring summer to the table with homemade strawberry jam--fill your shelves for the year! Homemade Strawberry Jam is Super Easy Making jam is a great place to start if you are new to canning. It's quick and ...

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How to: Canning Bone Broth

July 26, 2020 by Kristi Stone 11 Comments

Want to fill your shelves with food while saving money? Sick of buying canned bone broth at the store when you know very well, you can make it for free out of your kitchen scraps? I know you do, and I know you are. The good news is canning your own bone broth at home will make you a BOSS at filling your shelves in no time flat! Follow this recipe, and you will be doing it ...

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How to Make the Best Fermented Garlic Dill Pickles

July 7, 2020 by Kristi Stone 11 Comments

Making pickles from scratch sounds like a hard thing to do, doesn't it? Wrong! Fermenting is one of the easiest of all food preservation techniques. The summer flavor of these fermented garlic dill pickles recipe will blow your mind--and, they are ready inside a week! Dill pickles have been a favorite of mine ever since I was a little girl. I could eat a whole jar of Del ...

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How to Make the Best Salsa {Recipe for Canning}

July 7, 2020 by Kristi Stone 16 Comments

Summer is a fantastic time for not only eating delicious salsa made from your huge tomato harvest, but for canning salsa too! This is the best salsa recipe for canning, and is wonderful to make for your shelf every year. It has been tested and found to be safe when you follow the given instructions, so you don't have to worry that you'll mess up! Part of the goodness of ...

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How to Make Fruit Wine at Home: Second Ferment

June 17, 2020 by Kristi Stone 2 Comments

So far, we have gathered our tools for the wine making process, made the mash for the first ferment, and this week it's time to transfer our wine to a 1 gallon jug for the second ferment! Are we having fun yet? I know I am! Despite the fact that I am 72 days sober on the day I'm writing this article, I really do enjoy making wine. We grow chardonnay grapes here on our ...

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Wine Making Process: How to Start an Easy First Ferment

June 17, 2020 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

Do you grow fruit on your homestead and are not sure what else you can do with it? Has your family eaten enough of it that they are ready for it to go out of season? Are you jammed and jellied out? Why not try wine making? In this post, I'll take you through step 2 in the fruit wine making process, which is starting the first ferment. ( Didn't catch step 1? Read it ...

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Wine Making Process: What You Need to Get Started

June 16, 2020 by Kristi Stone 2 Comments

Preserving what we grow is so rewarding, and there are so many ways to do it! Home canning, dehydrating, freezing, and even storing are a few ways to "put up" the foods you grow, but there are definitely more! One of my favorite ways to preserve fruit is to make wine. This post will kick off a series that will take you through the fruit wine making process, step-by-step from ...

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Canning Low Acid Foods: 7 Safety Rules You Need to Follow

September 23, 2019 by Kristi Stone 1 Comment

jars of home canned green beans - Canning Low Acid Foods - Stone Family Farmstead

Home pressure canning is a fabulous way of preserving the bounty from your garden or store, but for some it can feel very scary. Many hear horror stories involving pressure canning and wonder "will I blow up my kitchen?" Some simply just stick with water bath canning, and unfortunately, end up using that method for foods that need to be processed under pressure, putting their ...

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How to Preserve Grapes with Your Freezer

August 21, 2019 by Kristi Stone Leave a Comment

Grapes are one of the most fantastic fruits we can grow on our homestead. Not only do they taste amazing right off the vine, you can learn how to preserve grapes by dehydrating, freezing, or making wines and vinegars. While growing grapes might seem like a tricky endeavor, once you have them going, they will produce for you year after year. Your grapevines will provide you ...

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Freezing Tomatoes for Preserving Later in the Year

June 3, 2019 by Kristi Stone 10 Comments

Garden fresh tomatoes are a cornerstone of summer harvests, and sometimes the windfall of tomatoes is much more than we can keep up with--or maybe it’s just me! Both consistent harvesting from the garden and vigilant organic pest control are taking up a lot of time, leaving time for little else. There's an easy way to deal with this wonderful problem, and that's freezing ...

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Hi, I’m Kristi!

A little about me….For the past 6 years, we have lived on a scant acre in Southern California. I am the wife of the greatest guy ever….also a veteran ex-homeschooling mom of 3, grandma of 1, and fur mom of many!

Besides writing, my hobbies are gardening, herbs, crafting, scratch cooking, food preservation, goat breeding, and teaching all of these things here, to you, on Stone Family Farmstead’s website.


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