Description:
Learn what to do with all those tomatoes. Learn the basics of canning produce safely. This hands on class will have you canning salsa. Discussion will be held about other tomato products. Remember to bring a small cardboard box. All supplies are included in registration fee. Please enter in door #3.
Dianne Patras has been a University of Minnesota Master Gardener and a University of Minnesota Master Food Preservation Consultant for over 20 years. She grew up on a farm on the Iron Range with her parents and 5 siblings. She has been growing fruit and vegetables in large gardens and preserving food for over 50 years. Her family always had a large garden and Dianne helped her mother put up 1,000 quarts of food each year.
She has taught classes through the master gardener program, at the community garden, and through the community education programs including: vegetable gardening, seed starting, and growing sweet potatoes, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, black berries and black raspberries in a home garden. She also has taught many food preservation classes through the community education program and by invitation to other forums.
Dianne has managed the community garden in North Branch for the past 7 years, and has led six major expansions during that time.
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