Free food preservation classes, entrepreneurship workshops and pressure canner gauge testing will be offered in Klukwan and Haines this weekend, April 9-12.
SEARHC and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will sponsor the workshops, taught by Juneau cooperative agent Sarah Lewis.
“Cottage Foods and Beyond” will be offered from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Klukwan’s Hospitality House. Participants will learn how to safely and legally make and sell local foods. A workshop on pickling and fermenting foods will be taught from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, also at the Hospitality House.
Several one-hour classes will be offered at the Haines Senior Center on Saturday. They include: “All About Basil (and Other Local Herbs),” 9 to 10 a.m .; “Emergency Food Preservation,” 10 to 11 a.m .; and “Canning 101 and State Fair Exhibits,” 11 a.m. to noon.
“Canning Fish, Meat and Fruit” will be offered from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Haines Senior Center. Participants of all experience levels will learn about water bath and pressure canning, with a focus on the Southeast local harvest. The final workshop is on making sourdough and yogurt and will meet from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday at the Senior Center.
Lewis will test pressure canner gauges from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Hospitality House in Klukwan and 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Sheldon Museum in Haines.
As class size is limited, participants are asked to preregister.
Contact Lani Hotch in Klukwan at 767-5581 or [email protected]; the Sheldon Museum at 766-2366 or [email protected]; or Susie Wilkie with Extension in Juneau at 523-3280, ext. 0 or [email protected].