Diana Adams in California canning apricots with the cold-pack method and sweetening with honey"

If you don't preserve your garden produce, here's what you miss:

• having better tasting, more nutritious food free of industrial preservatives and colorants
• learning how to preserve food in case someday you need to do so...
• satisfying your natural instincts to gather and store food for later use
• if you can your food, getting to see your beautiful jars full of bright red tomatoes, green snapbeans, bright yellow peaches... lined up on their shelves, awaiting their big moment, especially for holiday meals
• if you preserve your food over the years, reusing your jars, you can save money

Each vegetable and fruit has its own special canning process, but information for canning each product is easily available. For instance, just look at what pops up when you search on the keywords "can tomatoes."

Also, abundant general information about canning is available at the following links: