There's nothing more comforting than a well stocked pantry. Start building up your preserving, brewing and fermenting skills with these 12 tried and true recipes from the Walkerland pantry!

Raw Packed Carrots

The secret to canning delicious carrots is simple: fresh, firm produce and using the raw packed method of canning. Get the recipe here: Raw Packed Carrots

Perfect Strawberry Jam

This recipe for strawberry jam is bursting with bright, fresh flavours. It captures the essence of juicy red summertime fruit and stores it up for future enjoyment. Find the recipe here: Perfect Strawberry Jam

How To Render Lard

If you don't raise pigs, you can buy lard from a butcher or local farm. Give them a call and they'll usually arrange something with you. Often when you buy lard, it will not be rendered so you'll need to do a little work to prepare it for use. It's really easy to do! Learn how here: How to Render Lard

Spring Flower Jelly

Spring Flower Jelly is a lovely way to celebrate the arrival of spring. This easy to make jelly uses edible flowers to capture the essence of spring and bottle it up for enjoyment through the year. What could be better? Learn how to make it here: Spring Flower Jelly

Fresh Horseradish Sauce

Fresh horseradish sauce is easy to make and the flavours are far superior to anything you can purchase in the store. If you grow horseradish, early spring is a perfect time to dig some up and make sauce! If you don't grow any you'll often find it in the produce section of the grocery store near the garlic. It's usually labelled "horseradish root". Find the recipe here: Fresh Horseradish Sauce

Healing Fire Cider Tonic

Fire cider is a spicy, raw apple cider vinegar, herbal tonic. The slow process in which you make it extracts the medicinal qualities of the ingredients creating a potent herbal vinegar. Fire cider helps to boost your immune system. It can be taken to ward off a colds or other respiratory infections. Learn how to make it here: Healing Fire Cider Tonic

Raw Apple Cider Vinegar

Raw apple cider vinegar is one of nature’s miracle foods. In addition to it's many culinary uses, there are also countless health and skincare benefits. ACV is often used for things like: heartburn, digestive issues, flu prevention, inflammation, regulate pH balance, ease nausea, detoxes and the list just goes on and on. Find the recipe here: Home-made Raw Apple Cider Vinegar

Raspberry Vinegar

Why not make your own brightly flavoured raspberry vinegar? It's really easy and it tastes far better than the store bought varieties. You can use fresh or frozen berries making this a handy recipe for the winter months. Get the recipe here: Raspberry Vinegar

Apple Fig Chutney

This Apple & fig chutney is one of my favourite preserves. It's pretty popular with family and friends as well. It's jam packed with dried fruits, and seasoned with warm spices. At first glance, the long ingredient list might make this chutney seem complicated but believe me, it's super easy to make and well worth the effort. Get the recipe here: Apple Fig Chutney

Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes

This recipe is for Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes. It creates a sort of bread and butter pickle flavour that you can enjoy with roast pork, ham and sandwiches. This recipe is for a large batch but you can safely reduce the recipe to meet your own needs.Find the recipe here: Pickled Jerusalem Artichokes

Carrot Wine Recipe

This recipe makes a semi-dry white wine with a twist. It really does not taste like carrot. One word of warning: Root vegetable wines do tend to turn out stronger than fruit wines. Find the recipe here: Carrot Wine Recipe

Rumtopf (Rum Pot)

Rumtopf quite literally means rum pot. It is a traditional German method of preserving fruits of summer with sugar and strong rum. It is traditionally eaten around Christmas but if properly stored it keeps indefinitely. Find the recipe here: Rumtopf (Rum Pot

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Preserving Your Harvest With 12 Delicious Recipes