What you don't know about the USDA & Canning Safety Rules

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about the truth behind the USDA in America and its home canning industry regulations and recommendations. The USDA has guidelines for each different food to preserve as well as for different canning methods. Food preservation safety is crucial to keep food from spoiling and people who eat it from getting sick. If food is not preserved correctly, it will spoil and, therefore, must be discarded. For all of the show notes and links, visit https://melissaknorris.com/366.

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0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
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0:27.6	it is packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:28.8	Hey pioneers! Welcome to episode number 366.
1:34.0	Today's episode of the podcast, we're going to be doing a little bit of diving into talking
1:40.4	about the USDA, how it got established, how it affects our canning guidelines today,
1:49.8	especially in the United States, and some actual history on pressure canning and canning in general.
1:58.0	Now if you follow my YouTube channel you probably saw this video that was just released and I'm going to be
2:06.0	playing some of the audio from that video in today's episode but I thought it was important enough. I don't usually bring a
2:15.0	YouTube video over to the podcast. So if you follow me on YouTube, you'll know not
2:20.0	very often do you get a YouTube video that is just regurgitated or redone as a podcast episode.
2:27.0	Almost always, it is completely different content that is on the YouTube channel versus what comes out on a new podcast episode.
2:35.0	But this is one since that video released and I've been looking through the comments and reading through the comments on that video
2:44.0	and really what spurned me to make the video in the first place
2:48.0	is very, very interesting and you'll see really
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