5 Things I Learned From Eating Down 300 Jars Before a Move

Little Mountain Ranch has sold, and with a family of nine and somewhere between 6 and 12 months of food stored on these shelves, the practical choice was to eat through as much of it as possible before moving day.

Over 300 jars later, I have learned more about how I actually want to run my pantry than any canning season ever taught me. Here is what I found.

A Final Tour of Little Mountain Ranch

Little Mountain Ranch from the hay field.

This ranch has been home for nearly a decade. One hundred and sixty acres of meadow, mountain, and sky in British Columbia, homesteaded in the early 1920s by the sons of neighbouring farmers who had been working this land since 1906. When we bought it, we knew it was old. We didn’t fully understand yet how much of that history was still here, waiting to be discovered.