Home Food Preservation
Home Food Preservation is fun! Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) wants you to produce safe and great tasting products.
Interested in having a speaker about home food preservation in New Jersey? Contact FCHS in your local RCE County office to explore possibilities.
Food Preservation Webinars
The Dept. of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) helps you get ready to preserve your fresh produce and other foods with 8 free webinars on home food preservation. Hosted by experts from across New Jersey, each video in this playlist discusses a different topics exploring step-by-step instructions, equipment, and best practices.
Ask The Expert - Home Food Preservation
Answers to consumer questions provided by Rutgers experts
The National Center for Home Food Preservation
The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation. The Center was established with funding from the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (CSREES-USDA) to address food safety concerns for those who practice and teach home food preservation and processing methods. The Center has directions, tips, and safe recipes to use while:
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- Botulism Survivor Urges Safe Canning (from Utah State University Extension)
- Avoiding 10 Canning Mistakes (from Utah State University Extension)
- Preserving the Harvest: Freezing and Dehydrating
- Canning in Glass Jars
- Let’s Eat and Preserve Tomatoes
- Dehydrating Tomatoes 101
- Let’s Make Roasted Tomato and White Bean Dip (includes freezing roasted tomatoes)
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Websites
- USDA National Center for Home Food Preservation
- Ball™ Home Canning
- Home Food Safety: Canning and Freezing Information (from Pennsylvania State University, Cooperative Extension)
- Canning, Freezing, and Drying (from University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension)
- Preserve Smart (from Colorado State University Extension)
- FoodKeeper App (from USDA)
- Canning Timer and Checklist App (only available for iOS)
Books
- The All New Ball® Book of Canning and Preserving, 2016
- Ball® Blue Book Guide to Preserving 38th Edition, 2024
- So Easy to Preserve, 6th Edition, 2014
- Visit University of Georgia Extension for details
- USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, 2015
- Visit National Center for Home Food Preservation to download PDF
- Order from Purdue University for printed version