Many of us in the homestead,natural life style and prepper blogging communities are well versed in the methods used to preserve fresh food. In fact we are so passionate about eating fresh food all year long that we want to help others learn to preserve food too. A group of us got together to bring you a mega prize package of food preservation essentials. And to make the prize even sweeter many of the bloggers also included an extra prize! The first part of the prize is the new Stainless Steel Ball Hot Water Canner. You can use this canner for any of your acidic fruits and vegetable canning needs and it is specially made for glass top stoves too. Of course, you can use it on any other type of range also. For those foods that cannot be hot water bath canned, you can use the second prize. The Food Saver Vacuum Sealer System, will protect your foods while they are in the freezer. If you need help with the skills there is an abundance of knowledge on all of the blogger’s websites and there are some award winning books on canning included in the prize package. To make the package complete, we added the canning tool kit.

The total value of all the prizes is over $250! So join

in while we help you learn to Preserve the Bounty!

Here are the blogs participating and the additional prizes they are donating in this giveaway. Please take a moment to visit each one and maybe leave a comment.

Simply Living Simply – Tattler Reusable Canning Lids
Timber Creek Farm – Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Survival at Home
Lil’ Suburban Homestead – Ball Collapsible Funnel
Spring Mountain Living
Common Sense Homesteading-  Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin (book)
Peaceful Acres Farm
Pasture Deficit Disorder
Homestead Chronicles
Homespun Seasonal Living – one box of Pomona’s Pectin
Trayer Wilderness – Hand forged Lantern Hook
Melissa K.Norris – Pioneering Today by Melissa K. Norris
Whole New Mom – Soap Nuts, wash bag and clip set
Game and Garden
Amazing Graze Farm – Ball Blue Book of Canning
Frontier Blessings

This contest is open from August 18 at 12:01 am eastern time and closes on August 24 at midnight. Anyone over the age of 18 and a legal resident of the contiguous 48 United States and the District of Columbia, may enter. Winner will be notified by email (so use an email that you check!) and the winner will have 24 hours to respond and claim the prizes. If we do not hear from the winner within 24 hours we will choose another winner with the same terms applying.

Please continue on to the rafflecopter widget below and get your entries in! We hope to get to know each and everyone of you as you visit our blogs and facebook pages. Thank you and good luck!

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