Provisions for the modern homestead
A basket of heirloom tomatoes on a kitchen table
Sep 14, 2026

How we put up tomatoes when the vines come in all at once

A slow-Saturday method for turning a heavy harvest into a winter's worth of sauce — water-bath canning, freezer pints, and the one trick that saves your skin.

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From the kitchen table

a slower life, kept by hand —

Bread on the counter, jars on the shelf, the year in its proper rhythm. Pull up a chair; here's how we do it.

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One letter, every other Sunday — a short note on what we're putting up, what's coming out of the ground, and the one thing we'd reach for again. Plus our printable pantry plan to start with.

Garden bed in early summerJars lined up on a counterA loaf of sourdoughEggs in a basketJars of marmaladeA cast iron skillet