Preserving Nature’s Bounty

Kathleen Awe has been canning vegetables and fruit for decades, but one element of the process never gets old.

“I like the end product,” she said with a laugh. “I like eating it. I like sharing it.”

But there’s more to it than that.

“It’s something you make,” she said. “It makes you so proud that you have a product.”

Awe has many. Tomatoes, pickles, pears, salsa, antipasto, three-bean salad and a host of jellies and jams, the list goes on.

She began with applesauce, working together with her neighbor in the Town of Cedarburg.