Food Preservation: Freezing your Garden Harvest

800 West Barnes Avenue,Lansing MI 48910

30 August, 2021

Description

This class teaches how to freeze your garden harvest, what to do with your frozen veggies, how to make freezer-ready meals, & more! This class offers lessons on how to freeze your garden harvest, what to do with your frozen veggies, and how to make freezer-ready meals. Also will cover making freezer jam and freezer pickles. Run in partnership with the South Lansing Community Development Association and the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University. We are also offering workshops on water bath canning and pressure canning! These workshops are held at the South Lansing Community Development Center (behind St Casimir's Church) in southside Lansing, and will have the same content as the series run in partnership with the Allen Neighborhood Center. Water bath canning: Pressure Canning: A $5 donation is encouraged and spots are limited. If cost is a barrier, but you still want to attend, free tickets are available. Please email or leave a message for Program & Education Specialist Don Comer at [email protected] or (517) 853-7802 with any questions or concerns. The Garden Project was started in 1983 by early organizers of the Greater Lansing Food Bank who wanted to create a longer-term solution to the problem of hunger and to promote gardening as a vehicle for community development. Initial emphasis on growing for food pantries has shifted to a focus on families’ growing for their own household use. Gardener participation has grown each season and we now work with over 2,500 households. In the last several years, the Garden Project network has blossomed to 125+ community garden sites over a 7-county region, with over 33 acres in production. The network includes school and church gardens as well as gardens at housing complexes, community centers and allotment style gardens where families are growing their own food.