Making Jam

Description

Waterbath canning is the safe and simple process of preserving peak-season flavors and nutrients and allows you to stock your pantry with homegrown, shelf-stable foods and made-from-scratch goodness.

If you want to learn the skills to safely preserve summer harvests, increase your food security, reduce your food waste, and become more self-reliant, truly making the most of the best you’ve got, becoming familiar and comfortable with water bath canning is a giant leap closer to meeting each of those goals.

In this class you will learn:

• Essential water bath canning principles & techniques
• All about the equipment you need & how to use it
• To prepare fruit for jam-making
• How to use pectin & when to do without
• To properly identify the gel stage (to know when the jam is jammy enough!)
• To source & vet approved canning recipes
• To appropriately manage food safety while canning

You’ll also have the opportunity to:

• Tour (and taste!) my pantry for inspiration
• Ask all the questions about all the things
• Take home a jar of the jam we’ve preserved together

You’ll be equipped – and empowered – with the knowledge, training, and practice you need to enhance your food security, expand your self-sufficiency, and up-level your journey into home canning and preserving.

Come connect with your farmer, learn new skills, mingle with like-minded people committed to wholesome food, and come away with an increased appreciation for nutrient-dense shelf-stable ingredients to feed your family all winter long.

Class Fee: $65 per person; includes 2+ hours of workshop & instruction, a tour and tasting of our home-canned goods pantry, an in-depth workbook of recipes and techniques to take home for your reference, and a jar of the jam you’ve made yourself!