[FLPERMACULTURE] Food preservation at Cooperative Extension

[Michael Burns]

Cooperative Extension has for decades been a source of accurate
information on safe home food preservation and emergency preparedness,
and currently offers hands-on home canning classes in Ithaca.

Carole Fisher, Community Educator at CCE-Tompkins,
has scheduled the following classes:

Making (Strawberry) Jam (Wednesday, June 18th, 6:30-9:00 pm)

Canning for Beginners (Tuesday, July 22nd, 6:30-8:30 pm)

Making and Canning Salsa (Tuesday, July 29th, 7-9 pm).

These will be held at the Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow
Avenue, Ithaca. Because the Cooperative Extension facility isn't equipped
to process or preserve large quantities of food, individuals work with produce
provided for use by the class, and then are able to go home and repeat the
process with food from their gardens or local growers. You may register for
any of these classes by calling 272-2292.

In addition, anyone with questions on home food preservation or food safety
in general can call Carole at CCE-Tompkins or email her at: crf11 at cornell.edu.

A useful guide to home food preservation, So Easy To Preserve (5th ed), is
offered on the UGA website (http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/) and we expect to have
copies available for sale at CCE-Tompkins before long.  We have 2-3 copies
of the older 4th edition in stock, now offered at half price ($7.50)
through our front
desk.

Sandy Repp
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850-3555
607.272.2292


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