Nutrition & Health

Too many lemons, limes or mandarins? Learn how to make sweet spreads from citrus. Recipes include traditional marmalade and lemon curd, spiced orange jelly, and lemon thyme jelly. Techniques include boiling water and atmospheric steam canning for shelf stable products.

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.

Add some yummy condiments to your holiday meals! The Sweet & Savory Fruit Spreads workshop will provide an essential foundation for safe home canning.

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.

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.

Join our Master Gardeners and Master Food Preservers for our next Community Garden Collaborative Workshop! We encourage anyone who is working with a community garden to check it out and see how we can support your activities! To join this class, see info below: You can download the Zoom App/program...

Fee: Free! Do you have lots of extra produce in the garden this year? Bushels of peaches? Oodles of tomatoes??

Preserving Peppers! You will learn a variety of ways to preserve different types of peppers. We will cover dehydrating, freezing, and pickling peppers. You will receive recipes, tips and ideas on how to use your preserves.

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.

Are you curious about freeze drying? Do you own a freeze dryer and want to talk with others that have them, too? In this class we will show you how to use a freeze dryer, why freeze drying is a good method for preserving, and share ideas for preserving foods at home.