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1 Food Preservation and Storage Re-Skilling Workshop Presentation by Eva Cates and Donna Wellman August 12, 2009 Sponsored by

2 Why and What to Preserve and Store? Food Preservation -- retarding the aging process and preventing spoilage, thereby maintaining taste and nutritional value.

3 Why preserve and store food? For your family’s health Cost effective Convenience Unexpected Events

4 What does my family need? What should we store? –Make a list of 4 days of favorite foods Four breakfasts Four lunches Four dinners Don’t forget the snacks Use this list to develop your food preservation and storage

5 Food Storage What space do I have? –Turn a closet into a pantry –Dried herbs and foods take up little space –Use bookshelves in the garage or laundry room –Wire shelves on the back of a door –Turn an unheated room into root crop storage More on root crop storage later –Boot out the dust bunnies and use space under your beds

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7 What technique should I use to preserve food? Refrigeration and Freezing Drying Root Cellaring Fermentation Salting Milling Canning (Video)

8 Refrigeration and Freezing

9 Techniques Tips Containers…Storage life…Requires constant electricity

10 Drying

11 Sun-dried

12 Out of Sun Garlic Onions Herbs Beans

13 Root Cellaring

14 Canning


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