Which Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Method is Right For You?

Use this guide to help you decide if you want to can, dehydrate, or freeze your harvest.

By Jenny Underwood
Published on September 1, 2021
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Choose a fruit and vegetable preservation method that best meets your needs using guide to canning, dehydrating, and freezing.

Whether you’re brand new or a veteran farmsteader, you’re probably at least somewhat acquainted with different preservation methods.  Most everyone has frozen produce and many have dabbled in dehydrating or water bath canning. But are you aware of all the different preservation methods out there and each one’s pluses and minuses?

Let’s start off with a short rundown of the most popular methods of preserving food. You have water bath canning, pressure canning, freezing, drying, pickling and lacto-fermentation (I cover pickling and lacto-fermentation in my next post).  There are also many lesser-known ways such as salt curing, fat preservation and smoking but for this article we’ll concentrate on the somewhat “easier” ones to learn and do.

In Part 1, we’ll be focusing on canning, freezing and drying foods.

dried peach slices

Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Methods

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