Food Preservation and Nutrition Webinar Resources
2022 “Preserving the Maine Harvest” Webinars:
- Freezing Fruits & Vegetables
- Canning & Freezing Tomatoes
- Pickling Basics
- Common Home Food Preservation Ingredients and Equipment
2021 “Preserving the Maine Harvest” Webinars:
- Gifts from the Kitchen
- Fermenting Vegetables
- Pressure Canning
- Canning Salsa Safely
- Introduction to Boiling Water Bath Canning
- Drying & Outdoor Food Safety
- Using Home Preserved Foods in Cooking
- Using Frozen Fruit in Baking and Preserving
- Reducing Food Waste in Your Home Kitchen
- Instant Pot Cooking
- Savory Harvest Pies
- Using Unusual Maine Vegetables
2020 “Preserving the Maine Harvest” Webinars:
- Freezing Fiddleheads and Spring Refrigerator Pickles
- Freezing Greens and Rhubarb
- Introduction to Boiling Water Bath Canning
- Preserving Strawberries
- Preserving Herbs
- Drinks from the Garden
- Quick-Pack Cucumber Pickles
- Fermented Cucumber Pickles
- All Things Green Beans
- Freezing Maine Seafood
- Freezing Fruit
- Atmospheric Steam Canning
- Freezing Tomatoes and Corn
- Canning Tomatoes and Salsa
- Canning Relish
- Preserving Apples
- Pressure Canning Soups/Stocks
- Fermenting Vegetables
- Dehydrating Fruits & Vegetables
- Winter Storage
- Storing Maine Grains & Repackaging Bulk Items
- Pressure Canning Meats
- Preserving Cranberries
- Thanksgiving Dinner
- Gifts from the Kitchen
Freezing Fruits & Vegetables
- Let’s Preserve: Apples
- Let’s Preserve: Jams, Jams, Spreads
- Syrups for Freezing Fruit
- Freezing Quick-Guide: Freezing Fruits
- Freezing Quick Guide: Freezing Vegetables
- How to Freeze Tomatoes
- Freezing Raw Tomatoes With and Without Their Skins
View the Freezing Fruits & Vegetables webinar on our YouTube channel.
Canning & Freezing Tomatoes
- Let’s Preserve: Tomatoes
- Canning Salsa Safely (PDF)
- How Do I Can Salsa?
- Canning & Freezing Quick Guide: Freezing Vegetables
- How to Freeze Tomatoes Video
- Tomatoes and Potatoes Infected with Late Blight – Are They Safe for Canning?
- Freezing Raw Tomatoes With and Without Their Skins
- Pressure Gauge Testing Service
View the Canning & Freezing Tomatoes webinar on our YouTube channel.
Pickling Basics
- Let’s Preserve: Pickles
- National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I Pickle?
- National Center for Home Food Preservation | Low-Temperature Pasteurization Treatment
- Pickles for Special Diets
- Let’s Preserve: Refrigerator Spring Pickles
- National Center for Home Food Preservation | How Do I Ferment?
- Fermented Dill Pickles Recipe
- Sauerkraut Recipe
- Which Plastics Are Safe for Food Storage?
View the Pickling Basics webinar on our YouTube channel.
Common Home Food Preservation Ingredients and Equipment
- Let’s Preserve: Ingredients Used in Home Food Preservation
- Let’s Preserve: Food Canning Basics
- Let’s Preserve: Steps to Success
- Home Canning: Ensuring High-Quality Canned Foods
- UMaine Extension Dial Gauge Testing Service
View the Common Ingredients and Equipment webinar on our YouTube channel.
Gifts from the Kitchen
- Food for Holiday Giving: Safety Comes First!
- Holiday Food Safety
- Let’s Preserve: Herbal Vinegar
- Safe Homemade Flavored and Infused Oils
- Fruit Chutney Recipes
- Print Your Own Canning Labels
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Recipes (PDF)
Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tags:
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tag #1 (PDF)
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tag #2 (PDF)
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tag #3 (PDF)
View the 2021 Gifts from the Kitchen webinar on our YouTube channel.
Fermenting Vegetables
- How Do I Ferment?
- Let’s Preserve: Sauerkraut
- Sauerkraut Recipe
- Understanding and Making Sauerkraut
- Understanding and Making Kimchi
View the Fermenting Vegetables webinar on our YouTube channel.
Pressure Canning
- How Do I Can Vegetables?
- Canning Pumpkins and Winter Squash
- Canning Vegetables In a Pressure Canner
- UMaine Extension Dial Gauge Testing Service
- Maine Elevation by County
- Pressure Canning Soup/Stock Webinar Recording
- Pressure Canning Meat Webinar Recording
- Spaghetti Sauce without Meat Recipe
View the Pressure Canning webinar on our YouTube channel.
Canning Salsa Safely
- Let’s Preserve: Tomatoes
- Canning Salsa Safely (PDF)
- USDA-Recommended Salsa Recipes
- Adherence of Food Blog Salsa Recipes to Home Canning Guidelines (PDF)
- Make-Ahead Mexican Rollups
- Tomato/Tomato Paste Salsa
- Tomato Salsa with Paste Tomatoes
- Choice Salsa
View the Canning Salsa Safely webinar on our YouTube channel.
Introduction to Boiling Water Bath Canning
- Let’s Preserve: Steps to Success in Home Canning
- Let’s Preserve: Food Canning Basics
- Maine Elevation by County
- Chart of pH of Common Foods (PDF)
- Dilly Bean Recipe
View the Introduction to Boiling Water Bath Canning webinar on our YouTube channel.
Drying & Outdoor Food Safety
- How Do I Dry? NCHFP
- Drying Fruits and Vegetables – Univ of GA
- How to Dry Fruit
- How to Dry Vegetables
- How to Dry Herbs
- Mary Bell’s Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
- Let’s Preserve: Meat and Poultry
- Drying Jerky, NCHFP
- Jerky and Food Safety
- Food Safety for Camping and Hiking
- Barbecue and Tailgating Food Safety
- Real Maine – Connect with Maine Farmers & Food Producers
- Quick Pickled Balsamic Strawberries – Food in Jars
View the Drying & Outdoor Food Safety webinar on our YouTube channel.
Using Home Preserved Foods in Cooking
- Can Home-Canned Food Spoil?
- Using Home-Preserved Food Safely
- Principles of Home Canning (page 1-26)
- Altering Recipes for Better Health
- Salad Dressing Recipes
- “Mainely Dish” Recipe Video Series
- Maine Maple Sunday Map
View the Using Home Preserved Foods in Cooking webinar on our YouTube channel.
Using Frozen Fruit in Baking and Preserving
- Easy Fruit Compote Recipe
- Lemon Tendercake with Blueberry Compote | King Arthur Baking
- Altering Recipes for Better Health
- Berry and Greens Smoothie Recipe
- UMaine Extension Healthy Dessert Recipes
- Erin French’s Rhubarb Spoon Cake
- Strawberry Lemonade Concentrate
- Making Jam & Jelly with Frozen Fruit
- Drying Fruit Leathers
- NCHFP Chutney Recipes
- Zesty Peach Barbecue Sauce Recipe
- 2020 Freezing Fruit Webinar Resources
- Maine Maple Sunday Map
View the Using Frozen Fruit in Baking and Preserving webinar on our YouTube channel.
Reducing Food Waste in Your Home Kitchen
- Home Food Preservation: Avoiding Food Waste
- K-State Research and Extension Food Safety-Food Waste
- How to reduce food waste – MSU Extension
- How to organize your fridge
- Food Product Dating
- Make Your Own: A Recipe Guide
- Mainely Dish Video Recipes
- Foodkeeper App
- What Can I Make With Scraps?
View the Reducing Food Waste in Your Home Kitchen webinar on our YouTube channel.
Instant Pot Cooking
- Burning Issue: Canning in Electric Multi-Cookers
- Food Safety of Low Acid Canning in Electric Pressure Cookers (PDF) (pg. 27)
- Instant Pot Cooking Times Cheat Sheet
- Instant Pot Glossary of Terms
- Instant Pot Quick Ref Guide (PDF)
- Instant Pot Recipes
- Safe Internal Temperatures
View the Instant Pot Cooking webinar on our YouTube channel.
Savory Harvest Pies
- Spinach Pie (Crustless) Video Recipe
- Taco Pie Recipe
- Savory Harvest Pie Recipes
- Chef Rob’s Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
- EFNEP Recipes
View the Savory Harvest Pies webinar on our YouTube channel.
Using Unusual Maine Vegetables
- EFNEP Recipes
- Mainely Dish Video Recipes
- Make Your Own: Roasted Root Vegetables
- Michigan Fresh: Using, Storing, and Preserving Rutabagas
- Jerusalem artichokes: Tasty and versatile
- Vegetables: Give kohlrabi a try
- Vegetables and Fruits for Health: Greens
- Storage Conditions: Fruits and Vegetables
- Vegetable Varieties for Maine Gardens
- Senior FarmShare Program
- Maine Federation of Farmers’ Markets
- MOFGA Community Supported Agriculture
- Chef Rob’s Winter Salad Recipes
View the Using Unusual Maine Vegetables webinar on our YouTube channel.
Freezing Fiddleheads and Spring Refrigerator Pickles
- Facts on Fiddleheads
- Cooking and Preserving Fiddleheads (YouTube)
- Identifying and Harvesting Fiddleheads (YouTube)
- Let’s Preserve: Refrigerator Spring Pickles
View the Freezing Fiddleheads and Spring Refrigerator Pickles webinar on our YouTube channel.
Freezing Greens and Rhubarb
- Let’s Preserve: Leafy Greens
- Preserving Fresh Greens
- Facts on Edible Wild Greens in Maine
- Spinach Pie (Crustless)
- Growing Rhubarb in Maine
- Vegetables and Fruits for Health: Rhubarb
- Rhubarb Orange Chutney
View the Freezing Greens and Rhubarb webinar on our YouTube channel.
Introduction to Boiling Water Bath Canning
- Let’s Preserve: Steps to Success in Home Canning
- Let’s Preserve: Food Canning Basics
- Maine Elevation by County
- Chart of pH of Common Foods
View the Introduction to Boiling Water Bath Canning webinar on our YouTube channel.
Preserving Strawberries
- Let’s Preserve: Strawberries
- Let’s Preserve: Jams, Jellies, and Spreads
- Frozen Strawberry Sandwiches (PDF)
View the Preserving Strawberries webinar on our YouTube channel.
Preserving Herbs
- Preserving Herbs by Freezing or Drying
- Let’s Preserve: Dried Herbs
- Let’s Preserve: Herbal Vinegar
- Herbs and Vegetables in Oil (PDF)
- Safe Homemade Flavored and Infused Oils
- Make Your Own: A Recipe Guide
- Tips for Using Herbs and Spices
- Make Your Own: Salad Dressing
- Healthy Cooking with Fresh Herbs (PDF)
View the Preserving Herbs webinar on our YouTube channel.
Drinks from the Garden
- Tomato and Vegetable Juice Blend
- How Do I Can Fruits Berry Syrup?
- Preserving Foods: Fruit Juices & Apple Cider (PDF)
- Elderberries: Beautiful to Look at, Not for Canning
- Kombucha (Colorado State University)
- Distilled in Maine: A History of Temperance, Libations & Craft Spirits
View the Drinks from the Garden webinar on our YouTube channel.
Quick-Pack Cucumber Pickles
- Let’s Preserve: Pickles
- How Do I Pickle?
- Low-Temperature Pasteurization Treatment
- Pickles for Special Diets
View the Quick-Pack Cucumber Pickles webinar on our YouTube channel.
Fermented Cucumber Pickles
- How Do I Ferment?
- Fermented Dill Pickles Recipe
- Sauerkraut Recipe
- Understanding and Making Kimchi
- Which Plastics Are Safe for Food Storage?
View the Fermented Cucumber Pickles webinar on our YouTube channel.
All Things Green Beans
- Let’s Preserve Snap Beans
- Canning & Freezing Quick Guide: Freezing Vegetables
- How to Freeze Green Beans (YouTube)
- Pickled Dilled Beans
- UMaine Extension Dial Gauge Testing Service
- Burning Issue: Canning on Smooth Cooktops
- Mainely Dish Recipe: Green Bean Salad
- Maine Elevation by County
View the All Things Green Beans webinar on our YouTube channel.
Freezing Maine Seafood
- Maine Seafood Guide
- Packing Methods for Freezing Foods (PDF)
- How to Breakdown a Maine Lobster
- Fish: 2 Meals a Week for Good Health (PDF)
- Home Freezing of Seafood (PDF)
- Five Steps to Support Local Seafood
- The Best Way to Freeze Leftover Lobster Meat
- Lobster Cooking and Eating (YouTube)
View the Freezing Maine Seafood webinar on our YouTube channel.
Freezing Fruit
- Let’s Preserve: Berries
- Let’s Preserve: Jams, Jams, Spreads
- Canning & Freezing Quick-Guides: Freezing Fruits
- Preserving Raspberries: Freezing, Jams & More
- Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin
- Syrups for Freezing Fruit
- Confetti Yogurt Pops
- Berry and Greens Smoothies
View the Freezing Fruit webinar on our YouTube channel.
Atmospheric Steam Canning
- Teachable Moments: Using Steam Canners
- Safe Preserving: Using a Steam Canner
- Burning Issue: Using Atmospheric Steam Canners
- Home Processing of Acid Foods in a Steam Canner (PDF)
- Pickled Dilly Beans Recipe
- Maine Elevation by County
View the Atmospheric Steam Canning webinar on our YouTube channel.
Freezing Tomatoes and Corn
- How to Freeze Tomatoes
- Let’s Preserve: Tomatoes
- Let’s Preserve: Sweet Corn
- Canning & Freezing Quick Guide: Freezing Vegetables
- Freezing Raw Tomatoes With and Without Their Skins (PDF)
- Vegetarian Chili Recipe
- COVID-19 Food Safety Information for Maine Consumers
- Safety of Frozen Foods During a Power Outage
View the Freezing Tomatoes and Corn webinar on our YouTube channel.
Canning Tomatoes and Salsa
- Let’s Preserve: Tomatoes
- Canning Salsa Safely (PDF)
- How Do I Can Salsa?
- 2020 Recalls of Onion Food Products
- Make-Ahead Mexican Rollups
- Adherence of Food Blog Salsa Recipes to Home Canning Guidelines (PDF)
View the Canning Tomatoes and Salsa webinar on our YouTube channel.
Canning Relish
- How Do I Can Relish?
- How Do I Pickle Chutneys?
- Preserving Food: Canning Relishes (PDF)
- Jar Size Choices Have You Frustrated?
View the Canning Relish webinar on our YouTube channel.
Preserving Apples
- Let’s Preserve: Apples
- How Do I Can Fruit?
- Altering Recipes for Better Health
- Barry’s Farm – ClearJel
- Food Safety Facts: Safe Homemade Cider
- Mainely Dish Fruited Slaw recipe
- Maine Heirloom Apple Guide – Portland Food Map
- Maine Pomological Society
View the Preserving Apples webinar on our YouTube channel.
Pressure Canning Soups/Stocks
- Using Pressure Canners
- How Do I Can Meat Broth?
- How Do I Can Soup?
- UMaine Extension Dial Gauge Testing Service
- Elevation by Maine County
View the Pressure Canning Soups/Stocks webinar on our YouTube channel.
Fermenting Vegetables
- Let’s Preserve: Sauerkraut
- How Do I Ferment?
- Sauerkraut Recipe
- Understanding and Making Sauerkraut
- Understanding and Making Kimchi
View the Fermenting Vegetables webinar on our YouTube channel.
Dehydrating Fruits and Vegetables
- How Do I Dry? NCHFP
- Drying Fruits and Vegetables (PDF)
- How to Dry Fruit
- How to Dry Vegetables
- How to Dry Herbs
- Mary Bell’s Complete Dehydrator Cookbook
- Safe Homemade Flavored and Infused Oils
View the Dehydrating Fruits & Vegetables webinar on our YouTube channel.
Winter Storage
- Storage Conditions: Fruits and Vegetables
- Using a Bulkhead as a Root Cellar
- Winter Squash Curing and Storage Duration Chart
- Fruit & Vegetable Postharvest & Storage Information
- Small-Scale Postharvest Handling Practices (PDF)
- Storing Beets with Wood Chips in the Root Cellar
View the Winter Storage webinar on our YouTube channel.
Storing Maine Grains & Repackaging Bulk Items
- Eat Well Newsletter Cost of Convenience: Grains
- Eat Well Newsletter Food Safety Corner: Bugs in the Kitchen
- Saving Money With Homemade Convenience Mixes Recipes
- Maine Grain Alliance
- Maine Grains
- FoodKeeper App
- Food Storage for Emergencies
- Storing Staple Ingredients in the Kitchen
- Dates on food products. What do they mean?
- Growing Organic Cereal Grains in New England
View the Storing Maine Grains & Repackaging Bulk Items webinar on our YouTube channel.
Pressure Canning Meats
- How Do I Can Meats? NCHFP
- Chicken, Corn, and Rice Casserole Recipe
- UMaine Extension Dial Gauge Testing Service
- Eat Well Newsletter: How to cut up a whole chicken
- Cutting Boards and Food Safety (PDF)
View the Pressure Canning Meats webinar on our YouTube channel.
Preserving Cranberries
- How to Use and Preserve Maine Cranberries
- Canning Cranberries
- Cranberry Orange Chutney
- Cranberry Conserve Recipe
- Cranberry Sauce Recipe
- Cranberry Salsa Recipe
- How to Grow Cranberries
View the Preserving Cranberries webinar on our YouTube channel.
Thanksgiving Dinner with the UMaine Food Team
- Food Safety Facts: Helpful Hints on Handling Turkeys for Thanksgiving
- Let’s Preserve: Cranberries
- Vegetables and Fruits for Health: Winter Squash and Pumpkins
- Vegetables and Fruits for Health: Potatoes
- FoodSafety.gov Blog
- Food Safety Corner: Molds on Fruits and Vegetables
- Food Safety Corner: Safe Root Vegetable Storage
- How to Prepare Winter Squash (YouTube)
- Selecting, Handling and Cooking Turkey Webinar (YouTube)
View the Thanksgiving Dinner with the UMaine Food Team webinar on our YouTube channel.
Gifts from the Kitchen
- Food for Holiday Giving: Safety Comes First!
- Holiday Food Safety
- Let’s Preserve: Herbal Vinegar
- Safe Homemade Flavored and Infused Oils
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Recipes (PDF)
Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tags:
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tag #1 (PDF)
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tag #2 (PDF)
- Maine Holiday Gifts from the Kitchen Gift Tag #3 (PDF)
- Print Your Own Canning Labels
View the 2020 Gifts from the Kitchen webinar on our YouTube channel.
Food Preservation Resources
University of Maine Let’s Preserve series
University of Georgia So Easy to Preserve (6th edition)
(content also available from the National Center for Home Food Preservation)
USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015)
(also available as a PDF from the National Center for Home Food Preservation)
Ball Blue Book, 2015 or later, freshpreserving.com