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Bless This Mess › Life on the Farm › Our Family › Our Garden › Preserving the Harvest

Preserving Food From the Garden

Preserving food from the garden is an old-fashioned and very useful skill that anyone can learn! Use extra fruits to make homemade fruit leather and pumpkin puree and add a new flavor to the dinner table choices with flavorful sweet and spicy pickles.

Sometimes it can feel like your garden produces food faster than you can eat it. With these easy and delicious recipes, you can preserve your fresh fruits and veggies for weeks and even months to come!

A glass jar of pickled cauliflower with carrots and dill sits above a close-up of a cauliflower head growing in a garden, showing how to preserve cauliflower. The website BLESSTHISMESSPLEASE.COM is at the bottom.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cauliflower

A hand holds freshly picked, dirt-covered carrots; above, glass jars filled with pickled carrot sticks show how to preserve carrots on a kitchen counter. Text at the bottom reads blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Food

How To Preserve Carrots

A whole cantaloupe melon grows on the vine above, while fresh slices of ripe cantaloupe garnished with mint rest on a wooden board below. Find tips on how to preserve cantaloupe at blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cantaloupe

A close-up view of a healthy green cabbage plant growing in a garden, with large, overlapping leaves forming a tight, round head in the center—ideal for those interested in how to preserve cabbage at its freshest.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cabbage

Brussels sprouts being prepped on a paper towel showing how to preserve brussels sprouts, with some whole and some trimmed or halved, a knife and a white bowl nearby. A green label at the bottom reads blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Brussels Sprouts

A frying pan filled with fresh broccoli florets sits on a wooden surface next to a wooden spoon, with more broccoli for how to preserve broccoli and a website label blessthismessplease.com visible.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Broccoli

Freshly harvested beets with vibrant red-purple bulbs and long striped stems, surrounded by green leaves. The roots are still attached, making them perfect for learning how to preserve beets straight from the garden.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Beets

A close-up of fresh snow peas for how to harvest green snap beans piled in a woven basket, with bright green pods and a few stems visible.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Green Snap Beans

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Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Asparagus

Bowls filled with ripe apricots are placed on green grass. The apricots have a vibrant orange hue, and the bowls are white with blue rims. The sunlight casts soft shadows on the fruit and grass featuring how to preserve apricots guide.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Apricots

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Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Apples

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