Brenda grew up with canning and preserving in her genes. She follows generations of canners in her family where the dining room table served as a runway for her mom’s many jars of peaches, tomatoes, and green beans. Every year you could count on the ritual of planting, picking, canning, storing used jars for the next spring/summer canning – rinse and repeat! Now, many years later, “puttin’ up” is a passion of hers, as evidenced in the name of her small business, The Passionate Preserver, where she concentrates on capturing summer harvest all year round.