Well, it’s the best angle I could get for this shot. Each of these shelves goes back two feet, and we tried to space them for maximum efficiency (as we did for the rest of the house), but even then not all the jars fit in the space. Iin this shot you see canned nectarines (easier than peaches, and taste similar), beans, salsa, cider, grape juice, pears, tomato soup. Not pictured is the canned elderberry syrup, apple syrup, maple syrup (this last made from mapeline. Sugar maples don’t grow around here, and unless we tapped our own trees we couldn’t afford to can it anyway), and the myriad jars of freezer jam lurking in our freezers.

Here you see Jess piling jars on top of each other because we’re out of shelf space–a good problem to have. And Jess still hasn’t canned her pie apples nor the 75 lbs. of pinto beans she bought the other day, and will can in her spare time (ha!). It’s a good thing to have lots of food in the root cellar.