I learned to can from my Grandma. Would like to have a nickel for every bean I have snapped. I always canned peaches and apricots, tomatoes and made all kinds of jams from wild berries when we lived in Oregon. Now that I live in the desert and am older than dirt, I don't do it much anymore. Really do miss seeing all those beautiful jars filled and sitting on the shelves. Also my DH and I had our own 19 foot boat and we fished off the coast of Oregon at Brookings every year for salmon and the last year I canned we got 78 pints of king salmon. Sure was good...