Preserving the Harvest: Easy-peasy Pressure Canning & so much more!
Sun Aug 7, 2022 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM CDT
The Old Smith Place, 53520
Description
This workshop will focus on demystifying pressure canning as well as touching on other ways to preserve the harvest and eat from your garden year round. Learn Betty's secrets to making a healthy & flavorful bone broth, enjoy a "Farmer Fast Food" lunch of previously pressure canned items and receive recipes to put up their own "Fast Food - Meals-in-a-Jar".
Each participant will receive a chicken (born, raised and processed here on the farm) and be taught how to break it down and preserve the meat
through pressure canning.
While the canner is humming away, we will tour the farm. You'll see a large assortment of Guinea fowl, chickens and ducks and visit with our mixed herd of Jersey cattle and goats, (there should be a sweet new calf by then!) You can walk our extensive kitchen/market gardens and even harvest in season produce for purchase to take home with you. You pick! You may also browse our farm store and choose from an assortment of delicious jams, jellies pickles and more.
Workshop fee: $125.00
Remember to:
Bring a cooler if you wish to take home your carcass for bone broth, soup making etc.
BONUS: Registration includes a free copy of the book Renewing the Countryside: WISCONSIN Stories of Sustainable Living, Working & Playing (a $26.95 value) will be made available to every couple, household or family participating in this workshop (one free copy per address).
For more information on other Soil Sisters Aug. 5-7 weekend workshops, culinary events, lodging and more, see www.soilsisterswi.org
Soil Sisters Event Policies:
This is a workshop designed for adults and teens 13 years of age or older and each need to have their own paid registration. If childcare is an issue and you need to bring your children in order to attend the workshop, please let us know in advance.
All Soil Sisters events will be fully outdoors with space for social distancing. Masks are not required.
Dress for the weather. Bring sunscreen, sun hat and good walking shoes.
Leave your pets at home as these are working farms with other animals.
All Soil Sisters event tickets are non-refundable.
About Betty Anderson
Betty has been raising and 'putting up' food alongside her parents since she was little. These skills have served her well on the farm though she didn't grow up in a farming family like her husband. Sharing these skills with others during a time when the pandemic has put a spotlight on the frailties in our food system has brought a lot of joy and purpose to these dark days. She is a Navy veteran, the Treasurer for her tiny town and also holds down an off-farm job in the housing industry in Beloit. There they focus on stabilizing some of Beloit's tougher neighborhoods through home ownership and education in financial literacy.
About The Old Smith Place
The Old Smith Place is named after Daniel & Polly Smith who were the first to deed these acres from the US government before Wisconsin was a state. It is a beautiful third generation 40-acre diversified livestock homestead currently stewarded by Dane and Betty Anderson. As they walk these acres, they are mindful of all those who've walked before them. Their long-range plans are simply to leave the place a little better than they found it for the coming generation.
Soil Sisters is an award-winning project of the non-profit Renewing the Countryside, bringing together women championing local food, community building, sustainable and organic agriculture and vibrant rural communities for collaboration, networking and cooking up change. The founding Soil Sisters in southern Wisconsin organize the annual Soil Sisters event the first weekend in August, the largest women-farmer led event of its kind in the country. Since 2012, the Soil Sisters open their barn doors and farms for various workshops, culinary events and more.
Location
The Old Smith Place, 53520