With the current explosion of interest in home food preservation – be it pickling, jamming, fermenting, or freezing – where are home preservers supposed to go for answers to their questions?
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Four Master Food Preservers from California shared their experiences with us. The information below is a composite of their answers to the interview questions. What exactly is a Master Food Preserver? In California, University of California Cooperative Extension Master Food Preserver volunteers (MFPs) are unpaid staff members of the University of California and…
Eight Master Food Preservers (also known as Master Food Safety Advsiors) from Idaho shared their experiences with us. The information below is a composite of their answers to the interview questions. What exactly is a Master Food Preserver? A volunteer who has attended 6 weeks of classes taught by trained food safety faculty…
Jody Taylor, a Master Food Preserver in Franklin, Indiana, and member of the Johnson County Homemakers’ Extension Club since 2010, had this to say about the Indiana Master Food Preserver program. What exactly is a Master Food Preserver? Someone who has successfully completed the Master Food Preserver Training Program. The program in our…
Allison Carroll Duffy, author of Preserving with Pomona’s Pectin and her own CanningCraft website, and a Master Food Preserver in Maine, had this to say about the Maine Master Food Preserver program. What exactly is a Master Food Preserver? A Master Food Preserver is someone who is trained through a Master Food Preserver…
Four Master Food Preservers from Washington shared their experiences with us. The information below is a composite of their answers to the interview questions. What exactly is a Master Food Preserver? In Washington State, Master Food Preservers are trained volunteers who conduct outreach education through Washington State University (WSU). In order to be a…