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Grow It, Eat It, Preserve It - Classes and References
Grow It, Eat It, Preserve It food preservaton workshops are scheduled in Carroll, Frederick, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's and Washington Counties. Check the Classes page for up to date information.
Food preservation is a big part of the “Eat It” in our name. Our Food Preservation Action Team has put together a list of excellent home food preservation and food safety resources to help you safely and successfully “put up the harvest”….
Resources:
The National Center for Home Food Preservation website is maintained and updated with current research from the University of Georgia. Information for ordering your copy of So Easy to Preserve (5th edition) is found right on the home page. This website is a great central location for home food preservation information and has an extensive section for educators, including power point presentations on various aspects of home food preservation.
Penn State Cooperative Extension -Food Safey
This is the home page for a variety of food safety topics from Penn State Extension. You will want to look at the following pages for more information on home food preservation topics.
- http://foodsafety.psu.edu/preserve.html Home Food Preservation main page, contains several useful links, including a section on Critical food safety issues in home food preservation.
- http://foodsafety.psu.edu/lets_preserve.html Home page for the PSU Let’s Preserve Fact Sheets
- http://foodsafety.psu.edu/supplies.html This is a good place to start for manufacturer information when looking for home food preservation supplies.
- http://foodsafety.psu.edu/spanish.html UGA, Texas A&M, Wisconsin and some other Extension organizations have created publications in Spanish. Penn State conveniently created a page listing publications and providing links.
Clemson University has an extensive list of publications. Especially useful is Fact Sheet HGIC 3050, Common Canning Problems.
University of Minnesota Extension - Useful publication on harvesting and storing home garden vegetables.
Alaska Cooperative Extension publications on home food preservation include some of the more unusual topics such as jerky, and home canning of meat and fish, smoking and pickling of fish.
University of Missouri information on canning meat and fish.
Pacific Northwest extension publication on using and caring for a pressure canner, 15 pages.
University of Maine Extension Videos on freezing:
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Last updated: 04/12/2012