How to Make Pickles and Preserves at Home (Video Tutorial)

Do you find yourself throwing produce away? Or passing up good deals at the farmers market because you don't think you can eat all the fresh goodness? Learning how to make pickles, salsa, chutney and jam is an essential DIY skill and easy to do.

Watch this basic technique you can do at home with just a few simple utensils: jars, lids, and a big pot of hot water!

Looking for a good pickle recipe?

Start here with our popular Pickled Red Cabbage recipe.

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At Sueño de Vida we work in a meaningful way to heal land ravaged by deforestation. How meaningful? According to a recent UN Foresight Brief on climate change, 

--It is of the utmost importance to stop deforestation and to increase reforestation efforts around the world. Agricultural practices should focus on soil building, year-round soil cover with plants and the use of agroforestry methods.

That is exactly what we do here at SdV. You can help by helping us do what we do every day: plant forests that nurture soil, people, and community.

Click HERE to donate directly to our reforestation fund OR make a monthly pledge on our Patreon.

Thank you.

Kristen Krash is the director and co-founder of Sueño de Vida, a regenerative agroforestry farm, education center, nature reserve in Ecuador’s Chocó Andino Cloudforest. Prior to moving, Kristen was known for her guerrilla gardens — productive green spaces she created in any available space. Now an urban transplant in the South American rain forest, she has adapted her urban gardening and sustainability skills to large-scale reforestation of degraded land. She takes a practical and accessible approach to helping others achieve more balance and self-sufficiency in their lives.

Kristen’s articles and interviews have been featured on popular sustainability platforms like Abundant Edge and The Mud Home, and in the Rainforest Regeneration Curriculum at the Ecological Restoration Camps.