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This event is full.  To host an event of your own use the online form found under the "Events" tab on the orange menu bar. Have you been longing for a 100% reusable canning experience?  That's BPA-free too?  Now's your chance!  Join me to make some peach and blackberry jam using 2 different 100% reusable jar options.  We'll make…See More

Come learn to make hard cheese! We built our own press and have been making cheese for a couple of months. We look forward to showing others how to do it, too!We built our press for about $35! (Could have been cheaper if not stainless...)See More

Winter is a great time for stocking up. Building resiliency into your home in the case of temporary or periodic shortages in the delivery of goods or services is something folks often think is a good idea, but don't always get around to doing. With the support of a group, you can take this "to do" off your list, meet some other families in your community and eat scones too.This 2 part workshop will assist you to set up an individualized plan for your household's food staples and then implement…See More

Free tomatoes! Come join the first ever IthaCan Team Tomato event. We have a generous 10 bushel donation of conventionally grown tomatoes from Cornell and need to get them in jars and/or freezer containers.We'll can some and send some home for you to process on your own: can or freeze. Roxy has lent us the use of her 20 quart Amish canner, not sure how many times we can run it through in a 4 hour stretch, but what we can't can, we'll take home.The only cost will be lemon juice, jars and a $45…See More