www.foodpreserving.org is your resource for home food preservation! We're Australia’s biggest food preserving resource for recipes and articles about home preserving, cheese-making, fermenting, dehydrating, sausage-making and more! This website was created and is still run independently by Megan Radaich, a West Australian who is passionate about teaching communities how to preserve produce safely.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Megan Radaich
Sustainability Educator & Author
Food Preserving
& Green Life
Skills
Cooking, gardening, and craft: being
active in my community and helping others is something that is important to me as
it increases individual knowledge and helps reduce loneliness and isolation -
creating genuine and long-lasting connections
to build resilient, ethical and
sustainable communities.
I began my Food Preserving journey in high school, in home economics – learning
how to make jams and preserves using locally
sourced ingredients. During high school and then university (whilst studying
education and science degrees) I continued to cook and create homemade gifts
for family and friends. Having children led to more preserving at home –
for convenient family meals, entertaining with little work/time/cost, eliminating
unnecessary ingredients and helping to reduce grocery bills. I expanded my bottling/canning
and cooking skills to include pressure canning, fermenting, dehydrating, yoghurt-making,
cheese-making, sausage-making, green cleaning, crafts (like sewing, making
candles and soap), gardening and permaculture. Incorporating prepping,
homesteading and farmsteading with permaculture design to utilise maximum garden
harvests naturally leads to many Food Preserving projects all year long.
I've been a Food Preserver since 2002! With my background in home
food preservation, I started community courses in Western Australia in early
2012. After completing 365 days of daily preserving by the middle of 2013, I
created www.foodpreserving.org to share my articles and recipes, so everyone
can learn about food preserving methods, browse hundreds of recipes and have
everything they need to learn and use in one place. Today, I am very proud my
website is used so much all over the world. Knowledge and access to all is a
core ethic.
Learn more about my 365 Days of Creative Canning challenge HERE - I feel honoured that others found inspiration from my 365 project to
cook for a year too.
My future goals include creating online courses, publishing more recipes,
articles, and course guides (which are available on my online store), and then focus
on creating videos.
The Food Preserving website, recipes and articles are all funded by
running Food Preserving events (and from selling items via the online store),
so if you enjoy learning, please support our site!
Enjoy your Food Preserving
journey!
Learn, Create, Share
Megan