Adventures in Canning: Green Bean Edition

Our plentiful garden is overflowing with vegetables these days. 

Waaaay more than we are capable of eating! 

Some will stay good forever, if kept in a cool (not freezing) environment such as potatoes, carrots, onions. 

Seriously, I only finished eating potatoes from mom's 2012 garden this summer.

But some things, like tomatoes and green beans, don't keep so well. 

Our solution: canning!

This is definitely something that I did not expect to start doing.. well... ever. But it's actually fairly straight forward, and truthfully results in the best green beans you've ever tasted. 

I would share the whole process with you... but that would take a LOT of blog posts. 

I may have pages of notes written on my iPad so that I can attempt to replicate mom's methods one day... 

But here are some pics so that you can feel like you were part of the fun:

That was just one of 4 or 5 batches. 

Lots of green beans for the whole year! 

{yumm}