Can-It-Forward Day 2016
Can-It-Forward Day will take place on Friday, July 22nd. Now in its 6th year, Can-It-Forward Day was born from the desire to share – or pay forward – the joy and benefits of canning, bringing together canners, gardeners and food enthusiasts alike. Sounds pretty great to us!
Interested preservers can watch Canning demonstrations from popular canning bloggers including Marisa McClellan of Food in Jars, and Malia Karlinsky of Yesterday on Tuesday, as well as the Ball brand’s expert chefs will take place from 10:00AM – 3:30PM ET on the Ball Canning Facebook page via Facebook Live.
Some of the recipes featured during the Facebook Live event will include, Apricot Lavender Jam, Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney, Green Tomato Pickles, Fiesta Peppers, Chipotle Peach Salsa, and more.
This year the event has a big focus on charity. Five small, local, non-profit organizations have been selected with the help of participating bloggers to benefit from the event. For every like, share, reaction and comment on the Can-It-Forward Day Facebook Live videos on July 22, Ball Canning will donate $1 to the following local charities:
- Southside Middle School Panther Pantry (Muncie, Indiana) selected by Jarden Home Brands
- The Food Trust (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) selected by Marisa McClellan, Food in Jars
- EnrichLA (Los Angeles, California) selected by Linda Ly, Garden Betty
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee (Nashville, Tennessee) selected by Angie Holden, The Country Chic Cottage
- Food Lifeline (Seattle, Washington) selected by Malia Karlinsky, Yesterday on Tuesday
If you want to participate Can-It-Forward Day here’s a few fun ideas on how to join in on the preserving fun!
- Enter your chance to win a $50 store credit to Fillmore Container (use Rafflecopter widget below).
- Post a picture of your preserved goods with #canitforward #fillmorejars.
- Pledge to can-it-forward by signing up via the pledge page and share with friends.
- Tune in on July 22nd to watch canning demonstrations via Facebook Live from 10:00AM – 3:30PM ET. Each hour, viewers will have the chance to win a giveaway prize! Be sure to share the videos with your friends!
- Engage with any of the Facebook Live recipe videos and Ball Canning will make a donation to charity.
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Chipotle Peach Salsa
I plan on gifting a lot of my neighbors with my jams & jellies.
Chipotle Peach Salsa
I am interested in the Peppers & the Tomato Chutney. Thank you!
I love all things blue and green, so it would whichever was available. Thank you!
I would like to see the Yesterday on Tuesday and Ball recipes
I would like to watch about Fiesta Peppers!
Love to check out the Chipotle Peach Salsa; have had several requests for my ACV BBQ sauce for pulled pork, so planning on a batch of that.
I want to watch peach salsa.
I am hoping there is way to watch more than one, but I am most interested in the green tomato pickles.
They all look good, maybe the salsa or the jam.
Looking forward to participating in this very special day.
I would like to see the Spicy Tomato Chutney!
I want to watch all the live stream classes!
Fiesta peppers
Love your products .Thankyou for the opportunity to win .
I’ll be at the office that day, but I’ll try to sneak in watching the chipotle peach salsa demo. Peach season is right around the corner in my state and it sounds tasty.
Love this idea
Apricot Lavendar jam
Fiesta peppers
The green tomato pickles. They sound fabulous!
I love the blue jars.
Apricot lavender jam sounds AMAZING!!!! 🙂
Oh the Green tomatoes pickles!
I am in love with the cow straws!
The Apricote Lavender jam sounds yummy
Thank you
These are awesome products!
The tomato chutney sounds interesting
Green Tomato Pickles
I’m excited about the Green Tomato Pickles.
Spicy tomato chutney
Apricot Lavender Jam is so full of summer, a must learn and make!
The Apricot Lavender Jam and Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney sound lovely.
So hard to decide, I really want to watch them all. If I have to pick just one then I’m thinking fiesta peppers, but apricot lavender jam sounds really tasty too.
I’d like to see several videos if possible, but mostly the peach salsa, apricot lavender jam and green tomato pickles.
Green tomato pickles sound delicious!
Chipotle peach salsa!
I’d totally order the purple striped straws as purple is my favorite color.
Fiesta Peppers!!
Fiesta Peppers
Looking forward to the demos!
the apricot lavender jam one sounds really fun to watch
If I win I would choose Candy Apple Red striped.
I would like to watch the apricot lavender jam.
I like the camo drinking straws.
I am looking forward to the chipotle peach salsa and the apricot lavender jam. I have been wanting to experiment with lavender a bit but haven’t taken the leap. 🙂
My son is a pepper nut so I’ll be taking in the Fiesta Peppers!
I gift my homemade foods all the time. I love sharing the foods I make from the produce I grow in my organic gardens. Everyone should be doing this!!
I’ve been eyeing the purple jars for a while but I prefer straight-sided jars so maybe a big lot of those 🙂
Apricot Lavender Jam sounds so yummy!
Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney.
First I might watch the Chipotle Peach Salsa video when it is available.
I’d like the Stainless Steel Straw Straight Endurance 8mm Diameter.
Green tomato pickles rock!
Just finished canning my second batch of strawberry jam made with strawberries picked on Cape Elizabeth in Maine.
I am making lots of jams and jellies to share with family and friends!
Apricot Lavendar
I will sneak away from my desk at work to watch these. I can’t wait! I made another batch of Marisa McClellan’s Caramelized Red Onion Relish yesterday. I can’t get enough of it!
I love to can. I just recently did a small batch of mixed-berry fruit preserved….very love sugar and we love it!
Mmmmm Chioptle Peach Salsa or Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney sound good to me, but really all of them do!
Can’t wait to see all the demos!
Chipotle peach salsa
Salsa!
Chiptle Peach Salsa!!
I am in love with the blue jars, so I will probably purchase some of those.
As many as I can! Fiesta Peppers specifically.
The chutney sounds interesting.
Spicy heirloom tomato chutney! Although I am hoping all the sessions will be archived and available for later viewing…
I picked up some green jars from the heritage collection. I’m so excited to put green beans in the green jars later this week.
Apricot Lavender Jam
Apricot lavender for me!
Green tomato pickles because mine lack crispness!
Chipotle Peach Salsa sounds fantastic but I would like to watch all the videos!
Blue, green or PURPLE!
Chipotle Peach Salsa
I think I’ll watch the salsa
Can’t wait to see the spicy heirloom tomato chutney.
If I can watch it without having a FB account, I will watch the tomato chutney and Chipotle Peach Salsa.
Chipotle peach salsa
I would choose blue.
Can’t wait to try the spicy heirloom tomato chutney.
Either blue or green
I’ll be watching the Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney
I love the stainless steel straws – and could use a couple more now that my kids use them too!
The Green Tomato Pickles sounds like a good choice.
I want brown striped paper straws!
I plan to watch the Green Tomato Pickles video
Fiesta Peppers as it appears that I’m going to have a lot of peppers this year!
Chipotle Peach Salsa sounds so good! We’ve had a great peach harvest in the Pacific Northwest and what a great way to have them! Still new to this canning stuff. I usually just do refrigerator or freezer jellies because I’m not quite sure how to do the water baths and sealing yet. Thank you for all of the great info and recipes on this site.
I’m a sucker for salsa – Chipotle Peach for me
Green Tomato Pickles
Chipotle Peach Salsa
Green tomatoes, and definitely green jars!
Apricot Lavendar Jam
All of them for me. Can’t wait.
i am interested in learning about the apricot lavender Jam
Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney
The camo straws would be a hit in my house, personal pref ss, love the blue & green jars
Green tomatoes
Fiesta Peppers, please
purple hair s my favorite color, so I’d choose a purple straw
I need to know how to make Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney, I am about to be up to my ears in tomatoes.
Spicy Heirloom Tomato Chutney!
Chipotle Peach Salsa sounds good-we love peach salsa here.
I like the dotted straws!
I’m looking forward to the Chipolte Peach Salsa demo!
I was hoping there would be a special pickle or relish but I can go with the tomato pickles. At the end of the season when I pull the plants I always have green ones. I usually give them away but I can learn to can them this year!
The tomato chutney demore or peach salsa. Both sound delish!
Can’t wait to watch the Chipotle Peach Salsa video today!
I”m going to make blueberry maple pecan conserve. YUM.
Mojito Jelly!
Hoping to catch the fiesta peppers one, if I can!
Chipotle Peach Salsa. Yum
Looking forward to the Peach Chutney recipe especially! Never enough chutney recipes.
Confetti Dots or cow print
since i’m at work, i won’t be able to watch the videos live, but will likely catch up on all of them later tonight!
Apricot Lavender Jam!
Chipotle peach salsa!
I’ll be watching from my daughter’s Facebook 🙂
Apricot lavender Jam!
Chipotle Peach Salsa sounds ah-mazing!
Green Tomatoes!
Wish I had more notice than an email today! Would have been fun to do this for friends! 🙂
If you missed the live sessions, you can still watch the videos and read through the Q & A threads!
Can’t wait to get all the recipes!
i would love to try the peach chipoltra salsa
they are all great the dotted ones and cow are my favorite
Fiesta peppers!
Chipotle Peach Salsa sounds good. Yum!
I plan on watching all the demo’s today! And I will #canitforward
I’d choose the blue color!
Green tomato pickles! One of my favorite snacks
I watched the Apricot Lavender Jam demo!!
I’m interested in the Tomato Chutney
I would choose Amber bottles for my essential oil blends
I’d go with blue
I love canning!
apricot lavender jam, definitely!
I love the blue jars !