check out this list of food preservation workshops to be held this summer throughout Northeast Ohio:
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Canning, Freezing
I notice there are a lot of meetings in the Cleveland / Greater Cleveland area concerning food preservation. Since I'm late getting into this, this year, I may have missed something in Akron, but are there any workshops/sessions in the Akron area on food preservation (Canning - Freezing)? I would also be interested in drying and other means of storing foods. I would like to be a little less dependent upon electricity (freezing and canning) to preserve foods. I am familiar with stories from the "old days" of my family living on the produce of their garden year round (winter too). Of course they canned. But they weren't familiar with flash freezing, or any kind of freezing except outdoors. They would bury their potatoes in their "cold cellar" (actually ground level). They hung their apples from rafters in the dark cold barn. They had potatoes, apples, and other canned goods from the fall until the next April or so. I do have a freezer, but I'd like to can and dry as much as possible. Anyone out there know anything about this?
Canning, Dehydrating, Freeze Drying
There will be. I have been asked to hold a workshop on food preservation at a local shop on Cuyahoga Falls Avenue. The date is not yet set, but it will most likely be in early August. I can, freeze, and dehyrate many food items. I am looking into freeze drying as well, but only plan to use it for fruits such as strawberries.
I am slowly, as the budget allows, taking advantage of some of the wonderful solar items on the market to increase our energy eficiency and reduce our electric bills. I am also looking at a way to make a solar dehydrator, but this year I do not have the space to build one. If I find someone to take down a rather large, half dead tree in our yard, then maybe it will be possible next spring. Thanks to the wonderful innovations in solar technology, I may finally realize my dream of having a working solar dehydrator. Building plans for one can be found on the web.
I dry apples, pears, grapes, and several vegetables to use for soups. The vegetables are celery, peppers, onion greens, and thin slices of many root vegetables such as carrots, parsnip, beets, turnips, potatoes. I also hang bundles of plants, for culinary and medicinal use, from pegs on the wall. This works well, takes no electricity, and can make the house smell wonderful for the first day or two. Thanks to the heat, my herbs are drying in record time this year. If you, or anyone else, would like more information on this and other eco-friendly ideas, please join me at www.ufohio.ning.com Information for classes and workshops are or will be posted on the ufohio site. Joining is free.
-Shelley
P.S. I also give talks, often free, about ways to use plants for food, aromatherapy, and health. Check the site for times and dates on these as well.