Home Canning Away From Home

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July/August 1977
By W.C. Overton 
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The cannery employees handle all the cooking, steaming, and can sealing. They also help the kitchen's customers with suggestions, recipes, instructions, and quality control (which, considering the ever-present danger of food poisoning from any canned goods—whether prepared at home or in a factory—is especially valuable).

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Last year this community canning center helped its customers put up 170,000 containers of food (about 2,200 a day) over a four-month season. Its receipts showed an average income of about $1,200 a month . . . or $400 a month for each of its three employees.

YOU CAN SET UP YOUR
OWN COMMUNITY CANNERY

Nope, you'll never get rich running a canning kitchen. Still, if your community doesn't have such a setup, you could do worse than think about forming a co-op to start one. If you operate it right, the business's cash flow will at least guarantee wages to the folks who work there . . . and you'll be able to take a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that you're saving several hundred or even a few thousand families (including your own!) a worthwhile chunk of their food bills.

We've been "putting by" at community canneries for over 15 years now and we've never lost a single batch of all the fruits, vegetables, apricot nectar, grape juice concentrate, venison, soup, stew, chili (be sure the seasoning is right before you seal the cans), applesauce, tomato juice, stewing hens (when they stop laying, we can 'em), or puddings (steamed in the cans before they're sealed) that we've processed. We believe that our canning kitchen offers us a great (and economical and easy) way to preserve any surplus of meat and/ or produce that we buy at a bargain, harvest in the wild, or raise ourselves.

YOU CAN ENJOY THE SAME SUCCESS

Check the Yellow Pages of the towns around you or ask your county agent, the local home economics teacher, big gardeners in your area, etc., for the name and address of the nearest community canning center. And if there isn't one close to you, do consider the idea of forming a co-op to set one up. You can get information about that by writing to Director, Ball Food Preservation Program, 345 S. High St., Muncie, Ind. 47302.

Believe me. With the price of food headed for the stratosphere the way it is, a community canning kitchen can be worth a lot of money to you and all your neighbors.

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