Food Safety

UC Master Food Preserver: Event

Funky Tea: Kombucha (online)

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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UC Master Food Preserver: Event

Funky Cabbage: Sauerkraut and Kimchi (online)

Mar 27, 2025

Join us to learn about the basics of making sauerkraut and kimchi. You’ll learn about what you need to make these funky fermented foods, what to do if you find mold, and how to preserve them.  Register to receive the link
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UC Cooperative Extension Imperial County: Event

Vegetable Production and IPM for Conventional and Organic Systems

May 1, 2025

Join UCCE Imperial County extension adviser's as they present theVegetable Production and IPM for Conventional and Organic SystemsThis workshop will feature presentations on various aspects of agriculture in Southwest desert region including vegetable disease updates and management, emergent…
UC Cooperative Extension Imperial County
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UC Master Food Preserver: Event

Ask A UC Master Food Preserver - Online Q&A

Apr 2, 2025

A panel of volunteers specializing in freezing, dehydrating, canning and food safety will be available to answer your questions and share their tips so you can safely and successfully preserve food at home.
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UC Master Gardeners of El Dorado County: Event

Central Sierra: Culinary Herbs - From Garden to Gourmet (EDC MG)

May 3, 2025

No fat, low fat, no salt, watch the sugar; were constantly bombarded about how to eat healthier. One of the best ways to introduce healthy, delicious flavor into meals is to use herbs in our cooking. Many are easy to grow and preserve.
UC Master Gardeners of El Dorado County
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UC Master Food Preservers of Central Sierra: Event

Central Sierra: Citrus: From Tree to Table - Combo Class

Oct 11, 2025

Join Master Gardeners and the Master Food Preserver volunteers in a wonderful presentation on how to grow and preserve citrus. Come see how you can grow citrus successfully in our community.
UC Master Food Preservers of Central Sierra
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bunches of dried red chilis hang from two strings and occupy a jar
UC Master Food Preserver: Article

From Poblano to Ancho: Why Dried Chili Peppers Have a Name of Their Own

August 11, 2026
By UC Master Food Preserver Online Delivery Program
by Katie Yamashita, Los Angeles County, Online Master Food Preserver Volunteer   For thousands of years, chili peppers were cultivated only in the Americas. Then, beginning in the late fifteenth century, Spanish and Portuguese traders carried them around the world as part of the Columbian Exchange…
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red and green apples in a large plastic basket
UC Master Food Preserver: Article

Bad Fruit Does Not Make Good Jam (August 2026)

August 11, 2026
By UC Master Food Preserver Online Delivery Program
by Maureen Ladley, UC Master Food Preserver of Solano/Yolo County Volunteer  Over the years, more than one of my acquaintances has assumed that if fruit isn’t very good fresh, turning it into jam is the right solution. After all, you’ll be adding sugar and cooking it, right? Unfortunately, jam is not a…
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UC Master Food Preservers of Central Sierra: Article

Central Sierra: Herbed Garden Marmalade Recipe

August 10, 2026
By UC Master Food Preservers of Central Sierra
Preserve it!  The county fair is over (did you enter any home canned goods this year?) and gardens are currently exploding with vegetables and herbs. Give this marmalade a try. The recipe comes from Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving, 2014, edition 37.Herbed Garden Marmalade RecipeYield: about 5 half…
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