Here’s everything you need to safely preserve fruit, vegetables, meat, and more to enjoy year-round. Julia Skinner is a food historian, educator, and founder of Root, an Atlanta-based company focused ...

A mason jar full of dry oats with lid and ring on - Ron Levine/Getty Images If you're using mason jars to store food, there's a high chance you're making a simple mistake that could affect the quality ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. It used to be that in addition to cooking the jam or sauce going into the jars, you had to spend a lot of time prepping the jars: sterilizing them, ...

Last month I sent off my seed order for the coming season and began wondering how I was going to store my harvest from the garden. Was I going to be able to find canning lids this summer? Canning jar ...

Are Ball Jars the Same Thing as Mason Jars? While Ball is perhaps the best-known brand, mason jars are produced by several other companies (including Kerr and Newell) and come in an array of sizes and ...

As the coronavirus pandemic stretched into spring, then summer, many Americans turned to home gardening. It’s a perfect pandemic hobby—soothing, tactile, a way to get outside when many public spaces ...