🥒🍅 Slow Down. Preserve the Season
Step into the Piney Woods Farm kitchen for a joyful summer day filled with fresh produce, time-honored preservation skills, and the simple pleasure of gathering around the table.
Together, we’ll capture the color and flavor of the season through two hands-on projects: naturally fermented vegetables and a tested water-bath canning recipe. You’ll explore the science behind safe food preservation, learn how to select trustworthy recipes, and gain the confidence to keep preserving your own garden harvest or farmers-market finds at home.
Whether you’re completely new to preserving or simply want to sharpen your skills, this welcoming workshop will guide you through each step in a relaxed, supportive farm setting.
During your day in the farm kitchen, you’ll:
🥕 Take a seasonal harvest walk and explore fresh ingredients grown on the farm
🫙 Learn the differences between fermenting, pickling, and water-bath canning
🧂 Discover how salt, brine, beneficial bacteria, temperature, and time work together during fermentation
🥒 Prepare your own quart of seasonal fermented vegetables
🍅 Learn how to select a safe, properly tested canning recipe
🥄 Practice preparing jars, filling, measuring headspace, removing air bubbles, and applying lids
🍓Process a seasonal recipe using the water-bath canning method
🔍 Learn about cooling, seals, storage, spoilage warning signs, and common troubleshooting
🍽️ Enjoy a delicious seasonal farm lunch and preservation tasting
🌻 Relax with iced herbal tea, good conversation, and the peaceful beauty of the farm
You’ll take home:
🎁 One quart of your own fermented vegetables
🎁 One jar of the day’s canned seasonal recipe
🎁 A practical food-preservation handbook
🎁 Tested recipes to use at home
🎁 A fermentation brine-ratio guide
🎁 The knowledge and confidence to safely preserve more of the harvest
Leave life’s stresses, screens, and demands behind for an unhurried, analog day in the farm kitchen. Slow down, work with your hands, share food and conversation, connect with community, and return home with jars full of summer—and a mind, body, and spirit that feel deeply nourished. 🌻🌿
📅 July 10 | 9:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
📍 Piney Woods Farm | LaGrange, Georgia
Cost: $165 per person
Bring-a-Friend: $300 for two ($15 savings per person)