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.

End of Winter Pantry Audit: Lessons for Next Year’s Garden

A close up of Chelsea in front of her canning pantry shelves full of canned goods.

Spring is the time to look at what is left on the shelves and evaluate how much we actually consumed. Did we grow enough? Did we can too much? Today, I am taking you through our winter pantry audit and sharing the biggest lessons we are applying to next year’s garden plan.