The following describes my approach at pressure canning meat and dairy products, with some comments on fruit, vegetables, and other preservation methods Pressure canning cookbooks, like Ball’s Blue Book, include recipes for making and canning meat broths, but, in my experience, most do not for meat itself. Similarly, they lack recipes for canning most dairy items. However, families have canned both for generations. Below, I share my positive experience of canning meats, cheese, and butter, for shelf-stable pantry items, based on the advice of friends whose families have done so for decades, and from my own experiences over many years … The post Home Pressure Canning, by Mrs. Alaska appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

On February 28, 1638, Scottish Presbyterians signed the National Covenant at Greyfriars, Edinburgh. — February 28, 1810: The first US fire insurance joint-stock company was organized, in Philadelphia. — And on  February 28, 1844 a 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton exploded, killing US Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking federal officials. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their … The post Preparedness Notes for Saturday — February 28, 2026 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

Scientists have built a working model of Earth without any life on it and what they found might change how we search for aliens. By simulating 4.5 billion years of our planet's evolution minus every bacterium, plant, and creature that ever existed, they've created a new tool for spotting genuinely habitable worlds among the thousands of rocky planets soon to be studied by the next generation of space telescopes.

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by Natalie Winters, The National Pulse: WHAT HAPPENED: Block, Inc., the San Francisco-based technology company formerly known as Square—which owns Cash App—and founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, announced on Thursday that it is laying off nearly half of its workforce.

Tommy Pham is a black Major League Baseball free agent outfielder. Given his background, it should come as little surprise that he had some words for progressive California Gov. Gavin Newsom after a racially charged incident. What may surprise some -- given the typically cozy nature between celebrity athletes and...

Sure, the Democrats say they're trying to make the multitudes of illegal immigrants in the United States legal. But who are you going to believe: A RINO Republican or your lying ears? This is, quite stunningly, a question -- even after the Democrats doubled down on the "path to citizenship"...

It's one of the most unfortunate -- and most predictable -- collisions of bad liberal priorities we've seen in quite a while: A man identified as a Somali who was driving a semi truck despite not being proficient in English or being able to identify road signs drove on the...

As a picture of patronizing liberal racism it was priceless. When a Fox News voter this week discussed the voter ID requirements being pushed by Republicans and President Donald Trump, one young, white Democratic voter said the quiet part out loud about how Democrats really feel about the minorities they...