Nature knows best!

By eating the foods nature provided, our distant ancestors succeeded in building health for future generations. When we observe and honor Earth's ways and take our place in Earth's food chain, we benefit not only ourselves but all the interconnected family of life.

In our day, knowing how to produce, prepare and eat foods that will build health has become more difficult. Simplistic advice abounds, usually directing us to colorful packages on store shelves.

Food Is The Key aims to learn and restore a more practical food wisdom, one that will carry us safely into a future very different from the recent past. Whatever happens, people who cultivate a measure of food independence will be better prepared. Most fortunate of all will be those who help to create self-sufficient communities for their human and non-human neighbors.

Home Food Preservation Class Descriptions

Making fermented non-alcoholic beverages

Do you have the kombucha habit yet? This time-honored beverage may be the most refreshing drink in the world, and exceptionally good for you. Do you know about kefir, kvass, or the real, original “punch?” You'll receive starter cultures. Bring your taste buds!

Freezing and pressure canning

In this class we learn to select and prepare fruits and vegetables for freezing, and to use the pressure canner to safely process low-acid vegetables such as beans and corn. Hands-on activities and take-home instruction materials

Dehydration and water bath canning

This session demonstrates the boiling water bath canning method, appropriate for acidic foods such as tomatoes. We also learn to preserve fruits and vegetables using dehydration. Hands-on activities and take-home instruction materials

Fermentation and live winter storage

If preserving foods through low-energy lactic acid fermentation is not a part of your skill set, this is the class for you. We learn traditional and quick methods for making sauerkraut and other amazingly easy, healthful and delicious treats. In-class practice and take-home instruction materials.

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The birthright of all living things is health.

This law is true for soil, plant, animal, and man: the health of these four is one connected chain. Any weakness or defect in the health of any earlier link in the chain is carried on to the next and succeeding links, until it reaches the last. (Sir Albert Howard, The Soil and Health, 1947)

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Nature knows best!

Home Food Preservation Class Descriptions

Food Is The Key offers these services

The birthright of all living things is health.