It’s apparent about ten minutes after stepping inside one of Franklin County’s canneries that a sense of community is strong there.
At its most basic level, canning is a method of food preservation that uses high temperatures to sterilize a container and its contents and create an airtight seal to prevent decomposition. Different processes are required to cook, sterilize and seal different foods. Anyone with the right equipment may can at home, but the cannery facilities allow for big batch processing all in one place.
Cannery operators Ronald David and Toni Stump said church groups, youth clubs and other organizations often make use of the canneries. One such group from Faith Fellowship Church took over the Callaway cannery Oct. 7 to make apple butter, as they have every year for several years.
The canneries have been…
