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Home Publications Search Seasonal Tips Blog Info Request Multimedia FAQs Contact Links How do I? Can Freeze Dry Cure & Smoke Ferment Pickle Make Jam & Jelly Store For Educators About Us The is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation. The Center was established with funding from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (CSREES-USDA) to address food safety concerns for those who practice and teach home food preservation and processing methods. Read More We offer you free lesson plans for teaching youth how to preserve at home in Put it Up! We’ve updated the curriculum with new illustrations and other minor improvements, which are now available to download and print from the Put It Up! curriculum page. There you can also access the new teaching tools: legal-size “posters” with step-by-step checklists. What's New Preserving Those Unripe Tomatoes Resources for Home Preserving Onions Orange Marmalade Preserve It & Serve It: A Children's Guide to Canning, Freezing, Drying, Pickling and Preparing Snacks with preserved Foods. This 47-page book teaches the basics of preserving with boiling water canning, freezing, refrigerating, quick pickling and drying. Step-by-step methods are illustrated and several child-friendly recipes are provided for using each of the preserved foods. Activities are intended to be carried out with adult supervision and help. Preserved foods include canned applesauce, canned strawberry jam, refrigerator or canned pickles, frozen berries, and dried fruit, tomato slices and applesauce rolled leather. Available for sale at the UGA Extension Publication Store . Seasonal Hot Topics With the cold weather upon us, interest has seemingly turned to making and preserving soups. Not all types of homemade soups can be safely canned by research-based procedures. For what we can offer, see Canning Soups and Freezing Prepared Foods . Home canning for winter squash should only be done with 1-inch cubes, not mashed or pureed. See directions for freezing it mashed. Yes, you can make jelly in the winter, even though it may not be with fresh local fruit. Try our Orange Marmalade or Orange Jelly from Frozen Concentrated Juice or Spiced Orange Jelly . Some parts of the country are already planning their spring gardens. Think ahead to how you might preserve what you plant. Safe canning directions might not be available for all foods, and not all foods freeze well. See our "How Do I…" menus. Recorded Webinar Available Having trouble watching this video? Use VLC Media Player to view it. So Easy To Preserve The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension has now published a 6 th edition of its popular book, So Easy To Preserve . The book is new as of September 2014. Chapters include Preserving Food, Canning, Pickled Products, Sweet Spreads and Syrups, Freezing and Drying . Ordering information is available on the So Easy to Preserve website . Our self-paced, online course for those wanting to learn more about home canning and preservation is temporarily unavailable while it is converted to another platform. This may take several months; we are sorry for the inconvenience. The same information can be learned by reading through Guides 1 through 4 of the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning , or this section of our website: How Do I.... Can Hosted by The University of Georgia | College of Family and Consumer Sciences...