About SB Canning
Preserving food, preserving tradition — and living more simply, one jar at a time.
Welcome to SBCanning.com. We’re a small team of passionate home canners, gardeners, and real-food enthusiasts who believe in the value of slowing down, doing things by hand, and living with intention.
This site began over a decade ago as a place to share canning recipes and techniques — and over time, it’s grown into something bigger: a living archive of what it means to take control of your food, your pantry, and your future.
What We’re All About
At our core, we’re canners. We fell in love with the beauty of putting up tomatoes, layering jam into jars, and capturing the seasons in glass. But we’ve also come to realize that canning is just one part of a much larger story — one that includes the garden where the food is grown, the pantry where it’s stored, and the daily choices we make around sustainability and self-reliance.
That’s why SBCanning.com is evolving into a broader resource — still rooted in canning and cooking, but branching out into the skills and values that support this way of life.
What You’ll Find Here
- Canning & Preserving: Our foundation — tested recipes, tips, and guides for safe home canning.
- Traditional Cooking: Sourdough, fermentation, pickling, and heritage techniques we still love and use today.
- Gardening: What to grow with preservation in mind — from salsa gardens to heirloom tomatoes.
- Pantry & Self-Sufficiency: Building a working pantry, long-term food storage, cooking from scratch, and rotating stock with purpose.
- Prepping: Emergency readiness rooted in everyday practices — using what you preserve, not just storing it.
- Sustainability: Waste reduction, jar reuse, eco-conscious cooking, and seasonal eating.
- DIY & Handmade: From homemade gifts to herbal salves and natural cleaning recipes.
- Cottage Food & Homestead Business: Turning your passion into income — whether at a farmers market, online, or through licensed cottage food laws.
Why It Matters
Canning and food preservation connects us to older traditions — the ones where food wasn’t fast, waste wasn’t normal, and knowledge was passed down through doing. For us, this way of living isn’t about perfection. It’s about resilience, creativity, and finding joy in the small things: a bubbling jam pot, a shelf full of jars, a meal you made with what you had on hand.
We believe that skills like preservation, gardening, and cooking from scratch are worth keeping alive — and worth sharing with others. Whether you live in an apartment or on a homestead, whether you’re just getting started or have been canning for decades, you’re welcome here.
Our Commitment
We create content based on real experience in real kitchens. If a recipe is on this site, someone on our team has tested it, tweaked it, and made it part of their life. We’re not chefs or corporations — just people who care deeply about where our food comes from and how we share that knowledge with others.
Let’s Stay Connected
Got a question, story, or guest post idea? We’d love to hear from you.
You can reach us at [email protected] or through our Contact Page.