Preserve

Confidently fill your shelves and freezer with safe, healthy food by canning, dehydrating, fermenting, freeze-drying, infusing, curing, brewing, and more!

Choose a Course and Start Preserving

Why is preserving food important?

Building up a long-term food supply saves you time and money, gives you greater food security and creates less waste in your household. Not to mention, if/when a crisis arises, you will be prepared. No need to panic shop when food sources are slim! These are just a few of the reasons my family started preserving food at home:

  • Convenience Meals & Snacks are Always on Hand: Make a lot of goodies when you have the time, and it is sitting waiting for you when you don’t have the time to cook from scratch (or just want to be doing something different!)
  • We Know Exactly What Goes Into Our Bodies: When you preserve your own food, you are in control of what goes into each jar. Even if you need to source the produce from your local farmers’ market, a friend, or the grocery store, you are the one responsible for cleaning, preparing and storing your food. It’s empowering!
  • We Avoid Unnecessary Ingredients: No unpronounceable ingredients in those jars… they just don’t need them (and neither do our bodies).
  • We Save Money: Whether you are preserving out of your own garden and orchard, or you are sourcing in-season produce at low prices near you, each time you put a jar on your pantry shelf, you’re saving money. 

Why is preserving food important?

Building up a long-term food supply saves you time and money, gives you greater food security and creates less waste in your household. Not to mention, if/when a crisis arises, you will be prepared. No need to panic shop when food sources are slim! These are just a few of the reasons my family started preserving food at home:

  • Convenience Meals & Snacks are Always on Hand: Make a lot of goodies when you have the time, and it is sitting waiting for you when you don’t have the time to cook from scratch (or just want to be doing something different!)
  • We Know Exactly What Goes Into Our Bodies: When you preserve your own food, you are in control of what goes into each jar. Even if you need to source the produce from your local farmers’ market, a friend, or the grocery store, you are the one responsible for cleaning, preparing and storing your food. It’s empowering!
  • We Avoid Unnecessary Ingredients: No unpronounceable ingredients in those jars… they just don’t need them (and neither do our bodies).
  • We Save Money: Whether you are preserving out of your own garden and orchard, or you are sourcing in-season produce at low prices near you, each time you put a jar on your pantry shelf, you’re saving money. 

INTRODUCING

Our Preserving Courses


 

The Abundant Pantry: Canning

  • 70+ detailed video lessons including step-by-step setup instructions and complete batch walkthroughs for fruit, veggies, meat, meals, liquids, living food, desserts and more!
  • 24/7 lifetime access! Watch over and over again, anytime!
  • 166 Page Class workbook that includes pre-treatment instructions, rehydration charts and full recipes
  • Complete troubleshooting section to confidently navigate any errors!
  • Plus bonuses!
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The Abundant Pantry: Freeze Drying

  • 60+ video lessons including over 20 thorough, step-by-step recipe tutorials - and fully downloadable!
  • 24/7 lifetime access! Watch over and over again, anytime!
  • Recipe downloads
  • The Abundant Pantry: Canning Workbook - 75+ printable pages of instructions and recipes
  • Complete troubleshooting section to confidently navigate any errors!
  • Plus bonuses!
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The Abundant Pantry: Preserving Eggs

  • 11 video lessons you can download and watch over and over again
  • 10 practical methods for preserving eggs at home
  • Full student support
  • 24/7 forever class access
  • Plus bonuses! 
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Fearless Fermenting

  • Learn the 5 Rules of Vegetable Fermentation to make amazing ferments every time!
  • Preserve your garden produce in less time than it takes to heat your canner.
  • Store your ferments without taking up all of your refrigerator space.
  • Help train your tongue (or your family's) to enjoy the taste of these SUPER IMMUNE-BOOSTING foods.
  • 2 recipe walkthrough videos to help you get started!
  • The downloadable (and printable!) 25-page Fearless Fermenting Guide
  • 6 family-favorite fermented veggie recipes
  • 24/7 Lifetime Access
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Homestead Kitchen magazine!


Each issue of Homestead Kitchen magazine is filled with practical tips from homesteading experts, delicious recipes, and inspiring stories to help you thrive in your homestead kitchen. Every month, you’ll get brand new recipes to help you fill your pantry, freezer and table while learning traditional cooking skills and preservation techniques.

What’s included in your subscription:

  • Monthly Digital Homestead Kitchen Magazine 
  • Physical magazine sent straight to your mailbox! (U.S. customers only)
  • BONUS! Homesteading Family’s Video Vault - a curated collection of over 225 of Homesteading Family’s exclusive and public how to videos
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Success Stories

“My first accomplishment was to learn the skill of water bath and pressure canning. It's been an incredible journey. Going along with that was food preservation. I'm as ready as as I'll every be to get through this winter, and dreaming of next year's harvest already!” - Jeannie D.

I completed the Abundant Pantry Canning class. These jars have fed our family many nights! What a huge blessing! I am so grateful to have these canning skills - my family credits this course with being a game changer for our homestead. Now I am working to shift my mindset that canning isn't a harvest season endeavor, but a year round part of lifestyle.
” - AlyssaMarie L.

The Abundant Pantry: Canning Masterclass

Learn how to confidently can foods and complete meals at home.


With the skills you learn in The Abundant Pantry: Canning, you can have a delicious, family favorite meal on the table in minutes... without running to the store, eating unhealthy junk food or spending too much on take-out dinners.

Everything You Need To Master Home Canning

  • Learn how to fill your pantry with healthy, SAFE canned foods.
  • Create a stash of delicious convenience foods, ready to heat and eat!
  • Save $$$ buying in season and preserving for use all year.
  • Avoid allergens by knowing exactly what is in every jar.
  • Make all-fruit jams with no added sugar.
  • Can SAFE sauces and soups in your water bath canner.
  • Fill the cupboard with tender, flavorful meats for quick and easy use.
  • Fearlessly use your pressure canner to create family-favorite meals.
  • Know the science behind SAFE canning so you can confidently serve your friends and family great meals from a jar.
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The Abundant Pantry: Freeze Drying

Have a fully stocked pantry filled with high quality food


Quickly and confidently preserve your garden produce, farmers market haul or grocery store bargain to save money all year long.

Stash family favorites like chicken pot pie, lasagna and burritos on your pantry shelves for easy convenience meals later.

Have an abundance of healthy snacks your kids can grab anytime!

Everything You Need To Master Home Freeze Drying

  • What freeze drying will do for you!
  • Understanding the Freeze Drying process
  • Freeze Drying Safety
  • Getting Familiar with your Freeze Dryer
  • Freeze Drying Walk Throughs (fruits, vegetables, herbs, liquids, living foods, meats, meals, desserts, candy)
  • Troubleshooting
  • Fill the cupboard with tender, flavorful meats for quick and easy use.
  • Fearlessly use your pressure canner to create family-favorite meals.
  • Know the science behind SAFE canning so you can confidently serve your friends and family great meals from a jar.
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The Abundant Pantry: Preserving Eggs


These instructional videos and printable workbook will teach you the correct way to handle, store, and the methods used to preserve your fresh eggs!

You will also receive:

  • Homesteading Family’s Favorite Egg Recipes Ebook – with our 10 favorite recipes for using up extra eggs
  • The complete digital Preserving Eggs Ebook
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Fearless Fermenting

Confidently create an endless store of health-enhancing fermented vegetables for your family!


You’ll learn EVERY SINGLE step and technique of basic veggie fermentation, including many of the secrets that your great grandma knew about feeding her family, like:

  • Fermenting vegetables is very, very safe. There are no hidden dangers involved.
  • Why fermentation of veggies requires ZERO heat processing
  • How eating properly fermented vegetables can drastically improve your family’s health.
  • Why storing your ferments does not have to take up all of your refrigerator space.
  • The FACT that fermented veggies taste absolutely amazing!
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Carolyn Thomas



I’m Carolyn Thomas! My husband, Josh, and I live on 40 acres in Idaho with our 11 kids where we grow, preserve, and prepare most of our own food right on our property.

As a young mom with a quickly growing family and a desire to feed them healthy, whole foods (even on a tight budget) I knew very quickly that we were going to have to figure out how to grow and prepare it ourselves…good food was just too expensive!

Freeze drying has quickly become my go-to preservation method in my homestead kitchen to fill my pantry shelves with our family favorites. I went from spending hours sweating over a hot pressure canner to cutting my preservation time in half and bringing nutritious meals to the table in minutes!

When I started freeze drying a few years ago, there was little to no information on the topic, and there was certainly nobody I knew that was using freeze drying in a practical, everyday way.

That’s why I created this class! You can skip right past the lessons I learned the hard way through messy mistakes and wasted food and get right into confidently creating shelf-stable meals, snacks and kitchen staples!

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Carolyn Thomas



I’m Carolyn Thomas! My husband, Josh, and I live on 40 acres in Idaho with our 11 kids where we grow, preserve, and prepare most of our own food right on our property.

As a young mom with a quickly growing family and a desire to feed them healthy, whole foods (even on a tight budget) I knew very quickly that we were going to have to figure out how to grow and prepare it ourselves…good food was just too expensive!

Freeze drying has quickly become my go-to preservation method in my homestead kitchen to fill my pantry shelves with our family favorites. I went from spending hours sweating over a hot pressure canner to cutting my preservation time in half and bringing nutritious meals to the table in minutes!

When I started freeze drying a few years ago, there was little to no information on the topic, and there was certainly nobody I knew that was using freeze drying in a practical, everyday way.

That’s why I created this class! You can skip right past the lessons I learned the hard way through messy mistakes and wasted food and get right into confidently creating shelf-stable meals, snacks and kitchen staples!

Success Stories

“I have learned so much from not only Carolyn and Josh, but from this entire HFK community. Am so grateful to continuously learn to be more self-sufficient in my little urban landscape. Now I ferment various veggies and keep scobys, dehydrated, keep layer hens, maintain sourdough starter, garden, mill my own grain, water bath AND pressure can! These are all things I never thought I'd be doing and yet, here I am! It's an accomplished feeling and I can't wait to grow more in the NEXT year!” - Nicole H.

“The sheer amount of information I have been taking in has literally changed the way we feed our family of eight! I think the biggest things I have learned are about canning and food storage. My heart flutters every time I get to shop my basement pantry. We legit wouldn't be here without the tremendous amount of tips, tricks and encouragement we have received the HF resources.” - Stephanie A.

Want it all?


Become a Homestead Kitchen Member!

I remember crying with my husband after ruining my hundredth batch of bread, thinking, “I’m done. I can’t keep doing this!” So many times during those early years as a homesteader I wanted to quit. I never want anyone else to feel that way. Enter the Homestead Kitchen Membership! I’ve committed my career to prevent you from experiencing the same overwhelm I did.

We’ve created easy-to-follow processes, courses, and a community to help you make fewer mistakes and more progress so you can enjoy fresh foods with your family, a healthier life and the peace of mind that only comes from the freedom of homesteading! Here's what you get as a Homestead Kitchen Member:

  • WEEKLY, live support from Carolyn, Josh and other homesteading experts! Almost every week, one of us will sit down with our morning cuppa to connect with you over a virtual call and answer your questions LIVE! 
  • A community of other like-minded homesteaders on the same learning path.
  • Our monthly Homestead Kitchen magazine (coming straight to your mailbox in January 2025!)
  • Guided challenges to hone your skills alongside fellow homesteaders.
  • Access to all of our masterclasses (yes...ALL of them!)
    • The Abundant Pantry: Canning ($199)
    • The Abundant Pantry: Freeze Drying ($199)
    • The Art of Homemade Bread ($199)
    • Herbal Medicine Cabinet: COLDS and FLUS ($199)
    • Practical, Homemade Dairy ($199)
    • Household Management ($99)
    • Fearless Fermenting ($79)
    • Herbal Oils & Salves ($39)
    • Preserving Eggs ($39)
    • Wild Milk ($79)
    • Baking with Home-Milled Flour ($39)
    • Permaculture for Your Homestead ($19)
    • And MORE, including homemade soap making, exclusive member-only video content, extra downloads and any new releases or updated content.
  • Plus exclusive discounts on our favorite homesteading supplies, early access to product launches, and a member's only behind-the-scenes weekly newsletter.
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