Preserving Your Harvest

I harvested my first pinto beans yesterday to try a new baked bean recipe. It was good but not as good as my wife's recipe. That's the best way to use those vegetables you been growing all summer...direct from the garden to the table. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way for long. If you did well you'll have more vegetables than you can possibly eat right away. So what are you going to do with all the vegetables that you have stacked in those boxes, filling your kitchen, your garage or wherever? You really only have four options: eat it; give it away, preserve it for the future, or just thro...