When you’re up to your ears in fresh fruit and don’t have time to can, try making freezer jam. It’s fast, easy and will keep for up a year. Rhonda Beatty-Gallo, a master food preserver of Solano ...

To make freezer jam, all you need are fresh, ripe Oregon berries (or cherries, or apricots, or other seasonal fruit), sugar, commercial pectin, a little lemon juice (depending on the fruit you're ...

One thing I've learned in the few years I've been in Alaska is that locals are very protective of their berry-picking spots, especially now with the season hitting its peak. When I recently subtly ...

Clean and cut the fruit as you would for making fruit salad or fruit pie. For example: remove the caps from strawberries, and cut into quarters; or peel and pit peaches, and slice into pieces; or trim ...