Ball Blue Book

For sponsors: For $10, sponsor a 100th anniversary edition of the Ball Blue Book, the classic American guide to preserving food. For readers: Watch for the random weekly Ball Blue Book Project giveaways in the daily blog! (There will be more than one giveaway some weeks, as sponsorships allow.)

Find the BBB winners list here.

I love canning. It’s self-sustaining, wholesome, practical, and just plain fun. I learned to can at the feet of Georgia a few years ago when I lived in the slanted little house after I moved to the country. As this site grew into Chickens in the Road, I’ve enjoyed sharing my newfound love of canning with readers–and watching their enthusiasm grow, too. I especially love to see new canners. To can is more than just to put away a jar of food. It’s a connection to the past and a hope for the future. It bring families and friends together, creates new memories and brings out old ones, and is one of the easiest ways anyone, living anywhere, can practice self-sustainable, green, and simple living. Canning changes perspectives and changes lives.

I started the Ball Blue Book Project to get more canning guides into more hands to promote healthy, safe canning–and the good food and fun that goes with it. Sponsors, please join me in sharing this generations-old sense of accomplishment with others! And readers–get canning!

Your information and link will be posted in the Ball Blue Book post you sponsor. (BBB sponsorships appear in the order they come in. It may take some time before your sponsor post appears.) Sponsors are also listed permanently on the honor roll here. (See below.) Ordering and shipping books to winners will be handled by me, no work for you! The $10 sponsorship fee covers the cost of the book and shipping. No profit is collected by me for the Ball Blue Book Project giveaways.

*If you don’t have a website or blog but just want to encourage safe, healthy canning, you can still sponsor a Ball Blue Book. (You can even sponsor anonymously if you choose, or sponsor in the name of someone you want to honor, such as a grandmother who canned.)

Click Here to Sponsor!

Any week in which there is no sponsor, I will provide the book myself.

Instructions available on this site:
How to Can: Hot Water Bath Method
How to Can: Pressure Method

Pictured: Apples, raisins, and dried cherries in syrup.

Also read: The Joy of Canning.

And see: All my home-canning recipes and ideas.

You can also talk about canning with other canning enthusiasts and ask your canning questions in the canning section of the Chickens in the Road forums.

Thank you to all the Ball Blue Book sponsors, including those who have chosen to remain anonymous.

Honor Roll of Ball Blue Book Project Sponsors:

Your name here!
Casie Duberstein, in honor of her grandmother
The Ladies of Auburn Meadow Farm
Tracy at Sunburnt Cow Handmade Shop
JeannieB in honor of her mother, Helen Sharpe Frazee
Never Yield Gear
Lisabeth Olson, in honor of her grandmother
Billie at No Crack Cream
Carmen at Old House Kitchen
Vanessa Zumwalt, dedicated to Evelyn Lamont and Evelyn Lot
Rose at Baskets by Rose
Senta Sandberg
Chris UK
M.J. Peters
Gloria Elizabeth, in honor of her grandmother, Melissa, and daughter, Katherine
The Country School Retreat
Phyllis Curtis Ryan
Kentucky Farm Girl at My Country Blog of This and That
Susan at Farmgirl Fare
Mary Ann Yoder at Calamity Acres
Kathy Whitmore
Dana A. in loving memory of her grandmother, Loree B.
Janet Boivin for the family canners: Mae Epling Rowe, Lula Drake Epling, Eliza Lewis Rowe
Linda D. for Grandma Handler
Stephanie at Rae’s Rambles
Don and Shelley at Twiggity Rusticks
Ruthmarie at Bead Soup and More
Yvonne
Leslie for Save Your Ass Rescue
Carolyn at Walnut Spinney
Tales from the Coop Keeper
January Baby
Author Michelle Willingham
Alton Wright at ShadowWoods
Robyn Anderson at Crooked Acres
The Barefoot Chef
Farm Country Crafts
Myrna Mackenzie for the Illini 4000
CB in TN
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David Bruce and Canning2 at Yahoo Groups