Entertaining Improve your canning skills By Cottage Life Published: August 31, 2012 Updated: June 25, 2022 share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Copy Link Cancel Ready to get canning? Start with some strawberry jam, from our canning expert Betsy Aziz, in this video: Preserved Strawberry Jam with Betsy Aziz The National Center for Home Food Preservation at the University of Georgia, the North American centre for home-canning expertise and research, offers consumer advice and tested recipes. Bernardin, the century-old Canadian manufacturer of Mason jars and canning tools, has a good website with home-canning instruction, recipes, and FAQs. The website of American sister companies Ball and Kerr offers tips, recipes, and video canning tutorials.