
Classes, Demos & Talks 2025
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, 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: 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 Internationl Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). More information coming soon! (Please note that you must be an IACP member to attend this talk. Please consider joining...it’s a great organization!)
August 8, 2025, 9:30AM–12:30PM: 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, go to: https://maineshakers.com/event/canning/
Photo of marmalade jars copyright Jeff Scher