From the experts at Jarden Home Brands, makers of Ball canning products, comes the first truly comprehensive canning guide created for today's home cooks. This modern handbook boasts more than 200 brand new recipes ranging from jams and jellies to jerkies, pickles, salsas, and more.

Organized by technique, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving covers water bath and pressure canning, pickling, fermenting, freezing, dehydrating, and smoking. Straightforward instructions and step-by-step photos ensure success for beginners, while practiced home canners will find more advanced methods and inspiring ingredient twists.

Tested for quality and safety, recipes range from much-loved classics—Tart Lemon Jelly, Tomato-Herb Jam, Ploughman's Pickles—to fresh flavors such as Asian Pear Kimchi, Smoked Maple-Juniper Bacon, and homemade Kombucha. Make the most of your preserves with delicious dishes including Crab Cakes garnished with Eastern Shore Corn Relish and traditional Strawberry-Rhubarb Hand Pies. Special sidebars highlight seasonal fruits and vegetables, while handy charts cover processing times, temperatures, and recipe formulas for fast preparation.

Lushly illustrated with color photographs, The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving is a classic in the making for a new generation of home cooks.

The Mother Earth News Guide to Fresh Food will help you enjoy better-tasting, more nutritious, homegrown and homemade food all year long. With our expert's guidance, you'll learn recipes for fragrant bread made of freshly ground wheat, all the knowledge you'll need to pluck ultra-fresh spinach salads straight out of your cold frame, and even information on how to make your own yogurt and vinegar. In many cases, this fine fare will cost you less than what you pay at the supermarket.

Articles include:

• Grow Your Best Fall Garden: What, When and How - No matter where you live, there are crops you can grow now.
• Save Money on Groceries - Buying in bulk and freezing or canning fruits and vegetables are great ways to enjoy better food and cut food costs. 
• 10 Ways to Boost Flavor and Nutrition in Fresh Food - You know you should eat your fruits and vegetables. What you may not know is that how you handle, cook and store these fresh foods, and the types and varieties you choose, can notably affect their nutritional value. 
• How to Raise Chickens for Meat - Don't just wing it if you're new to raising meat chickens. Use our guide to fill your freezer with broilers in as little as six weeks form hatch to harvest. 
• Use Cold Frames to Grow More Food - Sow seeds in simple frames to add more than a month to your spring garden season. 
• You Can Grow Winter Tomatoes - With the right light, you can grow tomatoes indoors all winter. 
• Easy, High-Quality, Low-Cost Homemade Yogurt - After you know how to make yogurt at home, you'll wonder why you ever wasted money on the sugar-laden, store-bought stuff. 

And more!