You know that feeling when the garden suddenly goes wild and you’re staring at more tomatoes than any one family could possibly eat?

That’s where Hearth & Home begins.

This part of Step Back in Time celebrates the everyday skills that kept kitchens busy, winter cupboards and freezers full, and hands happily occupied — canning, preserving, baking, quilting, knitting, crocheting, and all those wonderful “someone really should have taught me this” traditions.

Think:

• Turning armloads of tomatoes into salsa, spaghetti sauce, and tomato juice
• Learning that wine jelly is a thing (and wondering why no one told you sooner!)
• Fall apples becoming apple butter, apple sauce, and apple pie — sometimes all in the same weekend
• Pickled carrots, pickled beets, bread and butter pickles… what else can we pickle?
• Quilts stitched with stories, yarn turned into something warm, and plenty of conversation along the way