March 4, 2025, 5:30–8:30 PM: Fundamentals of Home Canning
Location: Merrymeeting Adult Education, Brunswick Highschool, Brunswick, Maine
This three hour, hand-on class covers all you need to know to get started canning food confidently and safely at home!

May 13, 20, 27 & June 3, 2025, 5:30-8:30 PM: Fundamentals of Home Food Preservation
Location: Merrymeeting Adult Education, Brunswick Highschool, Brunswick, Maine 
This four-part class series covers five of the primary methods of food preservation that you’ll want to know to start preserving food confidently and safely at home! For more information and to register, go to:
https://merrymeeting.maineadulted.org/course/fundamentals-of-home-food-preservation/

May 20, 12:00-1:00 PM, 2025: Home Food Preservation: How to do it, and Why it Matters.  This is a free, virtual talk that I will be doing for the Food and Health Expert professional interest section of the Internation Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). You must be an IACP member to attend this talk.  But, if you want to hear my talk, and get to enjoy other membership benefits of IACP, you might consider joining...it’s a great organization!

August 8, 2025, 9:30AM–12:30PM, 2025: Fundamentals of Home Canning
Location: Shaker Village at Sabbathday Lake, New Gloucester, Maine
This three hour, hand-on class covers all you need to know to get started canning food confidently and safely at home! For more information and to register: https://maineshakers.com/event/canning

Sept. 9, 2025, 1:30–4:30 PM, 2025: Fundamentals of Home Canning
Location: Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program, Brunswick, Maine
This three hour, hand-on class covers all you need to know to get started canning food confidently and safely at home! This is a special class for MCHPP guests and volunteers!

Sept. 19, 10-11 AM, 2025: Home Food Preservation: How to do it, and Why it Matters. 
Location: The Common Ground Country Fair, Unity, Maine
In this free talk, I’ll discuss the benefits of home food preservation, and how to get started doing it. I’ll cover four key methods of home food preservation–canning, freezing, dehydrating and cold storing. I’ll discuss the basics of each method, including proper procedures, techniques, tools and equipment. Attendees will gain enough knowledge to get started preserving food at home with some of the simpler methods, and a well-rounded foundation for further food preservation learning. FMI: https://www.mofga.org/the-fair/

Sept. 23, 2025, 5:30–8:30 PM: Fundamentals of Home Canning
Location: Merrymeeting Adult Education, Mt. Ararat Highschool, Topsham, Maine
This three hour, hand-on class covers all you need to know to get started canning food confidently and safely at home! For more info and to register: https://merrymeeting.coursestorm.com/course/fundamentals-of-home-canning3?search=fundamentals+of+home+canning

Oct 14, 21, 28 & Nov. 3, 2025,  5:30-8:30 PM: Fundamentals of Home Food Preservation
Location: Merrymeeting Adult Education, Topsham, Maine 
This four-part class series covers five of the primary methods of food preservation that you’ll want to know to start preserving food confidently and safely at home! For more information and to register: https://merrymeeting.coursestorm.com/course/fundamentals-of-home-food-preservation1?search=fundamentals+of+home+food+preservation

March 3, 2026, 5:30–8:30 PM: Fundamentals of Home Canning
Location: Merrymeeting Adult Education, Mt. Ararat Highschool, Topsham, Maine
This three hour, hand-on class covers all you need to know to get started canning food confidently and safely at home! For more information and to register: https://merrymeeting.coursestorm.com/course/fundamentals-of-home-canning3?search=fundamentals+of+home+canning