Locally Baked Strawberry Cake sourcing Certified Organic Strawberries from Farmer Dave at D & A Farm.

Strawberry Chicken Salad catered by The Strawberry Patch with Georgia Pecans, local chives and berries.

Concord Street Sweet Cheesecake with berries from The Strawberry Patch.  Thank you Georgia Grown for Georgia peanuts.

Bluebird’s Local Foods Lunch & Learn.

Callaway Blue Spring Water.

Acid Levels

Altitude

Funnel

Headspace

Lids

Cooling

Boiling Water Method

Pressure Canning Method

Hot Pack for Fruit

Hot Pack for Vegetables

Raw Pack for Vegetables

Freezing

Preventing browning of cut fruits

Syrup pack for freezing fruits

Sugar pack for freezing fruits

Dry or Tray Pack for freezing fruits

Dehydrating

Drying Vegetables

Determining Doneness of dried fruit

How do I can?

General Canning Information

• How Canning Preserves Foods
• Ensuring Safe Canned Foods
• Equipment and Methods Not Recommended
• Ensuring High-Quality Canned Foods
• Recommended Jars and Lids
• Recommended Canners
• Selecting the Correct Processing Time
• Cooling Jars and Testing Jar Seals
• Storing Home Canned Foods
• Identifying and Handling Spoiled Canned Food
• Canned Foods for Special Diets
• Canning Fruit-based Baby Foods
• Temperatures for Food Preservation
• Temperatures at which Water Boils at Different Altitudes
• Causes and Possible Solutions for Problems with Canned Food
• Causes and Possible Solutions for Problems with Canned Fruit Juices
• Causes and Possible Solutions for Problems with Canned Fruit Juices
• Find Your Altitude

Canning Fruits and Fruit Products

• General: Preparing and Using Syrups for Canning Fruit
• Apple Juice
• Apple Butter
• Apple Butter, Reduced Sugar
• Apples-Sliced
• Applesauce
• Apple Rings-Spiced
• Apricots-Halved or Sliced
• Berries-Whole
• Berry Syrup
• Cherries-Whole
• Cherry (Sweet) Topping
• Crabapples-Spiced
• Crabapples-Spiced II
• Cranberries
• Cranberry Sauce
• Figs
• Fruit Pureés
• Grape Juice
• Grapes Whole
• Grapefruit and Orange Sections
• Lemon Curd, Canned
• Mango Sauce
• Mangoes, Green
• Mayhaw Juice
• Mayhaw Syrup
• Mixed Fruit Cocktail
• Nectarines-Halved or Sliced
• Papaya
• Peaches-Halved or Sliced
• Peach Fruit Topping
• Pears, Asian
• Pears-Halved
• Pie Fillings
• Pineapple
• Plums-Halved or Whole
• Spiced Plums
• Rhubarb-Stewed
• Zucchini-Pineapple

Canning Tomatoes, Spaghetti Sauces and Tomato Products

• Canning Tomatoes, Introduction
• Tomato Juice
• Tomato Paste
• Tomato and Vegetable Juice Blend
• Crushed Tomatoes (with no added liquid)
• Standard Tomato Sauce
• Whole or Halved Tomatoes (packed in water)
• Whole or Halved Tomatoes (packed in tomato juice)
• Whole or Halved Tomatoes (packed raw without added liquid)
• Tomatoes with Okra or Zucchini
• Spaghetti Sauce without Meat
• Spaghetti Sauce with Meat
• Tomato Ketchup
• Country Western Ketchup
• Blender Ketchup
• Easy Hot Sauce
• Barbecue Sauce

Canning Salsa

• Chile Salsa (Hot Tomato-Pepper Sauce)  
• Chile Salsa II  
• Mango Salsa  
• Mexican Tomato Sauce  
• Peach Apple Salsa  
• Spicy Cranberry Salsa  
• Spicy Jicama Relish  
• Tomatillo Green Salsa  
• Tomato/Tomato Paste Salsa  
• Tomato and Green Chile Salsa  
• Tomato Salsa with Paste Tomatoes  
• Tomato Taco Sauce  

How Do I?
…Pickle

Pickling

• General Information on Pickling
• Selection of Fresh Cucumbers
• Low-Temperature Pasteurization Treatment
• Salts Used in Pickling
• Cucumber Pickles
• Other Vegetable Pickles
• Fruit Pickles
• Relishes, Salads
• Chutneys
• Pickled Eggs
• Pickles for Special Diets
• Causes and Possible Solutions for Problems with Pickled Foods

How Do I?
…Jam and Jelly

Making Jams and Jellies

General Information

• Types of Jellied Products
• Jellied Product Ingredients
• Extracting Juice for Jelly
• General Information on Canning Jams, Jellies, and Marmalades
• Making Jelly without added Pectin
• Making Jam without added Pectin
• Making Jams and Jellies with added Pectin
• Processing Jams and Jellies
• Steps in Processing Jams and Jellies
• Testing Jelly without Added Pectin
• Remaking Soft Jellies
• Stiff Jams or Jellies
• Storing Home-Canned Jams and Jellies
• Causes and Possible Solutions for Problems with Jellied Fruit Products

How Do I?
…Freeze

Freezing

• General Information
• Blanching Vegetables
• Animal Products
• Apples
• Apricots
• Artichokes
• Asparagus
• Avocados
• Bacon
• Bananas
• Beans: Green, Snap, or Wax
• Beans: Lima, Butter, or Pinto
• Beets
• Blackberries or Dewberries
• Blueberries or Huckleberries
• Broccoli
• Brussels Sprouts
• Butter
• Cabbage or Chinese Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Cheese
• Cherries: Sour
• Cherries: Sweet
• Citrus Fruits
• Clams
• Crab
• Fresh Coconut
• Corn
• Cranberries
• Currants
• Dates
• Eggplant
• Eggs
• Figs
• Fish
• Gooseberries
• Grapes
• Grapes: Muscadine
• Greens (including Spinach)
• Garlic-in-Oil
• Guavas
• Fresh Herbs
• Ice Cream
• Kohlrabi
• Lemon Curd, Freezer
• Lobster
• Loquats
• Mayhaw Juice
• Meats
• Mangos
• Melons
• Mushrooms
• Okra
• Onions
• Oysters
• Edible Pea Pods
• Blackeye or Field Peas
• Green Peas
• Peaches or Nectarines
• Pears
• Bell or Sweet Peppers
• Hot Peppers
• Persimmons
• Pesto
• Pimentos
• Pineapples
• Poultry and Game Birds
• Plums
• Pomegranates
• Prepared Foods
• New Irish Potatoes
• Sweet Potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Raspberries
• Rhubarb
• Rutabagas
• Scallops
• Shrimp
• Sour Cream
• Spinach
• Chayote Squash
• Summer Squash
• Winter Squash
• Strawberries
  • Step by Step Freezing Strawberries (PowerPoint)
• Tomatoes
• Green Tomatoes
• Turnips or Parsnips
• Whipped Cream
• Zucchini

How Do I?
…Dry

Drying

• Food Dehydrators
• Fruit Leathers
• Fruits(Colorado State University) pdf
• Fruits and Vegetables(University of Georgia) pdf
• Herbs
• Jerky
• Leathers and Jerkies(Colorado State University) pdf
• Mango Leather
• Packaging and Storing Dry Foods
• Peanuts
• Popcorn
• Pumpkin Seeds
• Sun Drying
• Sunflower Seeds
• Vegetable Leathers
• Vegetables(Colorado State University) pdf
• Vine Drying

How Do I?
…Store

Storing

• Storing Home Canned Foods
• Packaging and Storing Dry Foods
• Food Storage for Safety and Quality(Colorado State University) pdf
• Cupboard Approximate Storage Times (Kansas State University) pdf
• Refrigerator/Freezer Approximate Storage Times(Kansas State University) pdf
• Proper Care and Handling of Fruits and Vegetables From Purchase to Preparation(Penn State University) pdf
• Storing Vegetables at Home(University of Wisconsin) pdf
• Safe Home Food Storage (Texas A&M University) pdf

Time & Date: May 9, 2012, 11:30-12:30, phone 478-283-4332,

Registration: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com .

UGA Canning Expert, Susan Howington

National Center for Food Preservation at UGA – Resources.

Facebook Event: Local Foods Lunch & Learn

Want to learn how to preserve the summer harvest of farm-fresh green beans, peaches, strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers and more?

Join us at Bluebird’s Local Foods Lunch & Learn – taught by Susan Howington, Canning Expert.  May 9, 2012, UGA Research Garden, Griffin, GA 11:30-12:30.

• Register on http://www.bluebirdcsa.com/ order page for the FREE community class or email:  bluebirdmarket@gmail.com .

• Lunch is catered by The Strawberry Patch with a cost of $15 each and can be reserved at http://www.bluebirdcsa.com or by emailing bluebirdmarket@gmail.com
• Thrive Coffee will serve iced coffees and Kick-Off their Farm to Cup medium and dark roast coffees.

• Join the fun day at UGA Research Garden, 121 Ellis Road, Griffin, GA, Wed. May 9th, 2012, 11:30-12:30.
• FREE Community Course ($15 cost for catered lunch) and FREE Garden Admission.
• If you are a local foods enthusiast and interested in learning about food preservation, you will want to be a part of this event. Guest farmers, Local Foods Catered Lunch, Tasting Table, Thrive Coffee Kick-Off, Arts Silent Auction, Plant Sale, Door Prizes [including CSA share boxes] and more Local Foods fun!!
• Learn about common sense canning with Canning Expert, Susan Howington. Susan teaches many communities how to can and we are thrilled she is able to make time in her busy schedule for Bluebird CSA members.
• Free registration and Free UGA Garden Admission includes the Free ‘Food Preservation Course’ on Wednesday, May 9th from 11:30 until 12:30.  You may also register for the Local Foods Catered Lunch at a cost of $15 per plate.
• Your lunch will be catered by The Strawberry Patch with a menu of ‘Strawberry Chicken Salad’ on a bed of baby mesclun greens, with locally grown, farm-fresh strawberries and toasted Georgia-grown pecans. Please email bluebirdmarket@gmail.com if you prefer to substitute gluten-free, vegan ‘Strawberry Quinoa with Toasted Pecans’ for ‘Strawberry Chicken Salad’.
• Tasting Table of assorted organic & Georgia made products like Cheesecake with locally grown Strawberry Toppong, Parisa’s Marinara with artisan focaccia, Flat Creek Lodge cheeses, Hillside Orchards fruit cider, Lauri Jo’s Southern Style Canning , cucumber relish, fig preserves, local strawberry blossom honey along with other seasonal, local foods and canning highlights.

• Local Arts – Opportunity to bid silently on local arts.  Works by Artist Anne Jenkins and Folk Artist Sam Granger.

• Fun door prizes including free veggie shares, strawberry shares, kitchen tools, canning supplies and local arts.

• Food Preservation Course Certificate – It should be a fun and informative day and you will receive a ‘Food Preservation Course’ Certificate for your participation in this 1 hour community canning class. (This certificate is for private purposes only)
• Bluebird CSA

• Bluebird CSA Map to Bluebird Lunch & Learn, UGA Garden, 121 Ellis Road, Griffin, GA http://www.caes.uga.edu/campus/griffin/garden/grifmap.cfm

  Visit the Garden – The Research and Education Garden

  www.caes.uga.edu

   

• Bluebird CSA Bluebird Lunch & Learn ‘Food Preservation Course’ Scroll to May 9th on UGA calendar to read more. http://www.caes.uga.edu/campus/griffin/garden/calendar.cfm

  

  Georgia Center for Urban Agriculture

  www.caes.uga.edu

Want a Giving Basket of CSA Veggies?  Half Shares $30

Order online: www.bluebirdcsa.com

www.bluebirdcsa.com

Culinary Herbs Growing Now Spring 2012

1. Pineapple Sage
2. Honeydew Melon Sage
3. Purple Sage
4. Chocolate Mint
5. Lemon Mint
6. Apple Mint
7. Mint Mojito variety
8. Mint Julep – spearmint variety
9. Peppermint
10. Spearmint
11. Purple Basil
12. Sweet Basil
13. Green Bouquet Basil
14. Thai Basil
15. Dwarf Basil
16. Genovese Basil (pesto favorite)\
17. Lime Basil
18. Lemon Basil
19. Lemon Thyme
20. German Thyme
21. Dill Bouquet
22. Stevia
23. Catnip (kitty culinary)
24. Lemongrass
25. Lemon Balm
26. Bee Balm
27. Greek Oregano
28. Lavender Vera
29. Chamomile
30. Chives

Heirloom Tomatoes

• Pineapple Tomatoes
• Green Zebra Tomatoes
• Mr. Stripey Tomatoes

World Record Holders

• World’s Largest Tomato (Delicious)

Veggies

•  Icicle Radishes
• Chocolate Bell Peppers
• Lemon Cucumbers
• Cinderella Pumpkins
• Heirloom French Shallots

Mesclun Lettuces

• Bright Lights Swiss Chard
• Spinach
• Oakleaf
• Buttercrunch
• Frisee

Experimental

• Peanuts

Want to learn to can?   Learn the simple techniques of canning home grown and CSA fruits and veggies.  Classes offered in Spalding and Upson Counties.  

Email: bluebirdmarket@gmail.com for signup information.

Introducing Bulk Fruit and Veggie Add-Ons this spring and summer for local canners.

For your favorite canning recipes choose Georgia grown with Bluebird CSA: 

• Georgia Peaches
• canning and freezing tomatoes (for salsa or soups)
• Roma tomatoes
• Blueberries
• Strawberries,
• Cucumbers, fresh dill,
• Organic corn, 
• Butter beans, peas,
• Yellow & zucchini squash
• and Vidalia onions.