Alabama Newscenter — That’s My Jam! Alabama Cooks Put Magic in a Jar

By Lenore Vickrey
Alabama Living

With more Alabama residents staying and working at home over the past year, many turned to growing their own food and then figuring out what to do with what their gardens produced. Many, predictably, turned to home-canning fruit jams, jellies, preserves and marmalades.

“Oh, my goodness, everyone wanted to grow a garden and then everyone wanted to know how to can,” said Angela Treadaway, regional extension agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Her office was overwhelmed with calls. Hundreds of people registered for the system’s online virtual workshops on canning and food preservation.

Why is making your own jams and jellies better than store-bought? “Because you know what’s in it,” she said. “There are no preservatives, and the freshness of it … there’s really no comparison.”

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