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AUGUST 5, 2023

Canning your food is a great and safe way to store many, many foods. Are you looking to preserve your own garden harvest? Creating a food savings account? Just want to explore the possibilities and gain a useful skill?

Join experienced food preservationist and canner extraordinaire Rachel Jamison to learn and experience the time honored skill of pressure canning in this FULL DAY class

• What foods you can safely can
• How to operate a pressure canner safely
• The various types of canners
• How to prepare various foods to be canned
• Some of the unexpected things you can preserve by canning!

Rachel Jamison has been preserving her food through many methods, a key one of which is canning. She has many years of study and experience to bring to the kitchen in teaching this class! She has canned about everything you can imagine and some things you didn’t know you could can.

Sign up today as seats are limited due to space constraints (the kitchen’s only so big!).

Time: 9 am to at least 2 pm 

Location: Baker’s Green Acres 

Please bring a dish to share for lunch. Table service will be provided.

More on Rachel:

As a child my family moved frequently so I never had a garden or animals.  Our food came from the store and it was usually the cheapest we could find (the 70 & 80’s economic crisis hit my parents hard). It was my grandfather,  trips out west camping, secret places hidden within the confines of our small city and short stints to country relatives that sparked something inside me I could never shake.  If you ask my family, they all knew that small city girl was destined to become a country girl. What also fed this was mysterious childhood illnesses that plagued me and left me home from school sometimes a month at a time. I was sick a lot, but because of this  I developed a voracious reading habit and  in elementary school I discovered Laura Ingals Wilder, Gwen Frostic, James Audubon, and more. 

I met my husband in high school, he grew up on a small hobby farm doing 4H, raising animals, gardening, picking fruit and cutting wood. He lived the life I always dreamed of living. After we got married we lived in a small old trailer outside of town for a few years.  Eventually we saved and purchased 20 acres. It took us 2.5 years to build a cute little house, which we then sold (we kinda regret that). It was there that I grew my first tomatoes from some free starts my mother in law gave me. We then moved back to town. We were on an acre, it is here my gardening and homesteading journey really started.  My mother in law taught me to can and father in law taught me about conventional gardening.  I started learning to bake and cook from scratch and then a series of health issues and tragedies hit our family. These  changed the way we thought about food and farming.  In this time we fixed up that house, sold, and moved to where we currently are (a small lot with very little space to grow).  I dove head first into alternative health, food, medicine, herbals, gardening, butchering, more preserving, primitive skills, etc…  The more I learn about this deep subject the less skilled I feel.  

I am happy to share what I know and my experience to inspire others on their journey to health and self-sufficiency.