Nutrition & Health

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Salsa @ Route 66 Garden

Event Date
Aug 24 2024

Join the UCCE Master Food Preservers of San Bernardino/Riverside to learn about processing SALSA! Master Food Preservers will demonstrate making a recipe and the canning process (steam canning).
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Preserving Tomatoes

Event Date
Aug 17 2024

Register at ucanr.edu/MFP3rdSat Learn it! Preserve it! Take it Home! Cost $25 Advance registration required.
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Preserving Citrus III: Sweet Treats and Everyday Eats

Event Date
Feb 18 2025

Too many lemons, limes or mandarins? In this final event in the preserving citrus series, learn how to make some more citrus treats and then how to utilize some of the previously covered preserved products in everyday dishes.
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Monthly Pressure Gauge Testing - Free!

Event Date
Mar 13 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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Monthly Pressure Gauge Testing - Free!

Event Date
Nov 8 2024

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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PAST: Junior Jams & Jellies Event (in Person Placerville)

Event Date
Mar 8 2025

Who Youth ages 5-18 years old What Join Master Food Preserver volunteers and learn to make your very own jam or jelly to enter in the 2025 El Dorado County Fair--plus take a jar home to enjoy! Choose from apple, grape, peach, or strawberry.
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PAST: Ask a UC Master Food Preserver - Online!

Event Date
Jul 10 2024

Join the UCCE Master Food Preservers for their monthly general Q&A session. A panel of volunteers specializing in freezing, dehydrating, canning and food safety will be available to answer your questions, share their tips and encourage you to safely preserve food at home.
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PAST: Junior Jams & Jellies Event

Event Date
Mar 9 2024

Youth ages 5-18 are invited to come make three jars of a jam or jelly of their choice (apple, strawberry, peach or grape), then take one home and enter the other two in the 2024 El Dorado County Fair! Bring your own fruit and the Master Food Preservers will provide everything else.
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Open Garden Gate

Event Date
Feb 15 2024

A regular workday at the demo garden on Thursdays, 11am to 1pm. The gate will indeed be open and members of the public are welcome to drop in and enjoy the garden and ask for advice. There will be public demos and plant sales. Share in garden produce, free seed exchange and local gardening advice.
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El Dorado Hills Farmer's Market

Event Date
Aug 25 2024

UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County will be available to answer your gardening questions or just chat about gardening! For more information about the Farmers Market, visit eldoradofarmersmarket.
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