Nutrition & Health

The 35th annual Southern California Spring Garden Show is a four-day garden event held April 24-27, in the Crate & Barrel/Macys Home Store wings.

Would you like to try your hand at fermentation but you are not sure where to start or how to use your fermented foods? Do you want to regularly incorporate fermented foods into your diet but you are not sure how to keep your live cultured food healthy and safe to eat?

Ag Employer Training will be offered in English.

Join us for our next 3rd Saturday "Learn it! Make it! Take it!" workshop on January 18th from 9 AM to 2 PM.

The Yorba Linda Public Library, partnering with the Master Food Preservers will teach and discuss the basics, process and some of the sciences of fermentation. Presentation will include discussions on equipment, food safety and fermented foods in general.

Have you ever wondered how to cure and preserve your own olives? There are multiple ways to remove the bitterness from olives to make them edible: lye cure, dry salt cure, water cure, brine cure and fermented.

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.

Herbs Fresh and Dried: Herbs add so much flavor to our meals! Expand your use of fresh and dried herbs and learn how to safely preserve your fresh herbs to enjoy all year. Making herb salts, rubs and pestos will be demonstrated.

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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.