UC Master Food Preserver Program

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Central Sierra: Everything Herbs (in person - Jackson)

Event Date
May 17 2025

Culinary herbs are an easy way to add healthy flavor and great taste to your cooking. Growing your own herbs keeps food costs lower as well as adding attractive, fragrant, and tasty plants to your landscape. A joint Master Gardener/Master Food Preserver class will discuss easy annual and perennial herbs to…
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Funky Tea: Kombucha (online)

Event Date
Apr 17 2025

Join us to learn about how to make kombucha, a refreshing drink made from fermenting tea. We’ll teach you how to maintain a healthy SCOBY (a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) to make kombucha, and how to do a second fermentation flavored with various fruits.
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Canning Basics I: High Acid Canning (online)

Event Date
Mar 30 2025

Excited to seal the deal on water bath or atmospheric steam canning this year but need some guidance? Join us for a 1 hour exploration of high acid canning basics covering both methods! We will discuss the differences and benefits of each method and tour several canner equipment types as well as a live…
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2024_03_22_George_Key_Ranch_Demonstration

Event Date
Mar 22 2025

George Key Ranch is a historic house, museum, garden and orange grove, located in the City of Placentia. Located within the park is the George Key home, built in 1898 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Food and Farm Lab

Event Date
Dec 9 2023

In this program, presented by UCCE Master Food Preservers of Orange County (https://ucanr.edu/sites/MFPOC/), you will learn how to preserve this months Farmers' Market bounty.
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Monthly Pressure Gauge Testing - Free!

Event Date
Jul 10 2026

Second Friday of every month. Click HERE to sign up. Pressure canners with only a dial gauge need to be tested annually to ensure the dial gauge is accurate. If your dial gauge is not accurate, it is not correctly reading pressure which may result in under or over processing and unsafe food.
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