Welcome everyone to Homesteading Made Simple, please introduce yourself. Let everyone know where you're from, what your experience leve is, and what you hope to learn here in our community. I'll go first, my name is Megan, I live on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada on a little 2 acre homestead we call Sun Twist Acres. I've been homesteading for almost 15 years, we grow a majority of our own food and preserve it here on the homestead. We have chickens and ducks for eggs and meat, and goats for milk and meat. We have raised pigs, turkeys, and geese in the past. I teach, canning, basic cooking skills, soapmaking, cheese making, bread making, gardening, animal husbandry, and more. Through this community I hope to pass on the knowledge I have spent many years perfecting so others who dream of a life like this can achieve it. Welcome and thank you so much for joining me here, this community is your safe place to grow and learn real skills for real life. Now it's your turn🥰

So we're starting off our 30 day canning challenge with our top pick on the poll I posted a few days ago, Pickled Beets. Watch the video for instructions and the recipe. This recipe will be WB

This recipe is for anyone who doesn't want to can up a bunch of beet but still wants to have some Makes 1 × 500 mL jar Ingredients 2-3 medium beets, cooked, peeled & sliced 105 mL white vinegar 40 mL water 40 mL sugar 1½ tsp pickling salt 1–2 tsp pickling spice Directions: Bring vinegar, water, sugar, salt and spices to a boil. Simmer 5 minutes. Pack beets into a jar and cover with hot brine. Cool, refrigerate and enjoy after 24 hours. Best after 2–3 days. Keep refrigerated. Not shelf stable.

Well our canning challenge is under way and we have results from our first poll, WB pickled beets will be first PC carrots will be second RC Baked Beans will be third. And here are the next 3 to pick from

Ok some of you may have notice a chang in the group, the section titled weekly focus has been changed to challenges. I thought this would be a bit more fun to be following a challenge rather then just having a weekly focus. In this section we may have a few challenges going on at once, some of them may last a week, some a month, some maybe just a day. Our first challenge is '30 days to fill your pantry' every day for the next 30 days I will be sharing a recipe or method for caning something. I'll be making a separate post for that. Ok before we start our first real challenge let try something simple, I want everyone to comment on this post. There are over 200 of you that have joined me here lets see how many will accept this challenge. Just say hi or challenge accepted or what ever you want. I'm going to leave the first comment, let see how many ofnyou are willing to accept my challenge.