Published: October 05, 2009 09:22 am      

COMING SOON: Money in a jar

Canning trend helps trim grocery bills

Kaleb Worl spent several hours each day this summer working his family’s two vegetable gardens, growing green beans, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, cucumbers and many other plants.

His hard work will pay off this winter when his mother, Nikki, can shop their pantry, rather than a grocery store, to feed her family during the winter.

While the Worl family has canned and frozen fresh produce for years, other people are jumping on the food preservation bandwagon for the first time this year, either to eat locally grown food or to save some money on their grocery bill.

Nikki Worl, who lives in Peru and works in Kokomo, said she had never canned until she married her husband 17 years ago. She learned the art of canning from her mother-in-law.

“He grew up with three brothers and they always had a garden,” she said.

She’s had to invest very little into her canning — many of her jars came from her husband’s grandmother, and she said cost for plants and seeds runs anywhere from $10 to $50 per year.



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