[grossvogel]

I thought the article was pretty careful to attribute the rise of canning more to psychological factors than to household budgets:

In times of economic insecurity like the last recession in 2009, when McClellan started her Food in Jars blog, people turned to canning to soothe their fears, and mason jar sales took off.

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“When there are these big downfalls of trust in systems of government or economy or institutions, there’s this desire to retain control wherever we can find it,” she says.