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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.

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.

Learn how to safely prepare, freeze, and dehydrate fresh strawberries to enjoy their sweet flavor long after the season ends. This session will cover best practices for handling and storing berries to preserve quality and reduce waste. 

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.

Join us in this second class in the series focused on low acid canning. 

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.

This calibration workshop will cover the basics of herbicide calibration in wildlands, and information on when to use different calibration methods, why you should calibrate your pesticide applications and improving spray techniques to reduce drift and exposure.

Farmers and Ranchers engaged in agritourism or who are interested in incorporating agritourism activities to diversify revenues from their existing production agriculture operations are encouraged to attend this gathering for peer learning, networking and collaborative program development.

Last Wednesday Meeting Meet Lexie Wilson, Extension & Outreach Coordinator at the University of California Organic Agriculture Institute On 1/29/25 at the Farm Bureau Conference Room 420 S Broadway, Escondido at 7:30AM to 8:30AM or on Zoom at https://ucanr.zoom.

Dates: Wednesday, July 17, and Thursday, July 18, 2024 For San Diego residents this meeting will be virtual Register here: (to receive a URL link) We're thrilled to announce the Dragon Fruit Workshop on July 17-18, 2024 at the Miami-Dade County Extension Service in Homestead, FL! ???