About the Diva

About The Canning Diva®

Welcome to The Canning Diva®, where traditional food preservation meets modern-day self-reliance. For more than three decades, Diane Devereaux has helped home canners build confidence in the kitchen by teaching practical preservation skills, developing flavorful recipes, and showing people how to turn what they grow, raise, or purchase into a well-stocked pantry.

CanningDiva.com has grown far beyond a collection of canning recipes. Here you’ll find hundreds of original recipes and educational resources covering pressure canning, water bath canning, pickling, fermentation, dehydrating, freeze-drying, food storage, gardening, heritage skills, and sustainable living. Whether you are preserving a summer harvest or building a more resilient food supply, the goal remains the same: give you practical knowledge you can actually use.

Who is Diane Devereaux?

Diane Devereaux is an internationally recognized food preservation expert, author, educator, and the creator of The Canning Diva®.

For more than 30 years, Diane has practiced and taught the art and science of home canning and food preservation. Her approach combines traditional preservation skills with modern techniques, practical experience, and a strong understanding of food safety. She has completed extensive coursework in food safety and food science through Secchia Institute for Culinary Education and works with an independent laboratory when developing and validating preservation methods and recipes.

Diane is the author of seven published books centered on home canning, food preservation, and sustainable living, with more than 375,000 copies sold. Her work has helped home canners move beyond simply preserving individual ingredients to creating flavorful meals, building well-rounded pantries, reducing food waste, and becoming more self-reliant in the kitchen.

Her expertise has led to television and media appearances, speaking engagements, educational programs, podcasting, and collaborations within the food preservation and preparedness communities. Through CanningDiva.com, the Canning with The Diva™ Podcast, and her free online classes, Diane continues to teach people around the world how to preserve food safely and confidently while keeping traditional skills relevant to modern life.

Beyond food preservation, Diane is an avid writer with a lifelong love of storytelling. She is also developing works of women’s fiction, giving her an opportunity to explore another side of her creativity outside the kitchen and the world of food preservation.

Originally from Michigan, Diane now calls Florida home. When she isn’t developing recipes, writing, teaching, or working on her next project, she enjoys gardening, cooking, traveling, and continuing to explore the traditional skills that have shaped much of her work.

Diane Devereaux’s first self-published cookbook, Canning Full Circle: Garden to Jar to Table, earned the 2018 IPPY Bronze Medal in the Cookbook – Nutrition/Vegetarian category.

Award-Winning Author

Diane’s cookbook Canning Full Circle: From Garden to Jar to Table earned a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY), recognizing her work among independently published books from around the world. The award reflects Diane’s commitment to teaching home canners how to take food from its source through preservation and ultimately to the family table.

With Canning Full Circle, Diane expanded traditional home canning beyond individual recipes by showing readers how to grow, preserve, and use home-canned foods as part of everyday meals.

Photography Credit

I’m grateful to work with food photographer Jeff Hage of Green Frog Photo. Unless otherwise noted, all food photography on this website was created by Jeff and is used with his permission. I also license select stock images from 123rf.com to illustrate certain articles and stories. Please do not reproduce or redistribute any images on this site without obtaining the proper permissions from Jeff, Green Frog Photo or 123rf.com.