Canning

[SealDriver]

All very interesting points! And generally I have come to the same conclusions as yourself BDG. I'm focusing on pickles and fermented veg and I hope to smoke, dry cure and also dehydrate meats in the near future. I have plenty of dried beans and pulses and although I would really like to 'can' I can see that due to any number of reasons it is looking less and less likely that I will.

America is separated from the UK by more than an ocean and although we sort of speak the same language, the Americans were/are the original survivors who had to thrive in the New World or die....Many Preppers in the US of A are practising the same various skills as their pioneering ancestors and not just that, their climate and environment are very different to our own, all factors that we sometimes forget about or completely fail to factor in.

Yes I too wonder if some American Preppers are doing it as some form of fashion or popularity culture thing. Yet the best of Preppers/Homesteaders are Yanks and I'm always glad to learn from our Colonial Cousins.

I would also like to learn more about our ancient food preserving methods as well as the other European Countries too!