Canning Foods: Your guide to successful canning

Canning is a wonderful way to preserve food at the peak of its freshness so you can eat and share it with others throughout the year. First Nations have preserved many different foods since time immemorial. Drying is a common method of preserving foods such as herbs, berries, plants, fish and meat. Other preservation methods used by BC First Nations communities include smoking, salt-curing, freezing and canning. This guide focuses on how to can food by heating it in glass jars, which forms a vacuum to create an airtight seal.