Preserving your Summer Harvest

If you’ve ever grown your own food, you know what it’s like to be faced with a mountain of summer produce that needs using. There are many ways to catch and store the energy and nutrition in your produce while it’s in abundance so you can enjoy it in leaner times, but it can feel overwhelming to know where to start.

In this free presentation and workshop, Anna The Urban Nanna will guide you through a wide range of food preservation techniques, and help you understand what’s involved in terms of cost and energy input, and give you a handy guide so you know when to use each method. You’ll taste various preserved foods, and then make your own delicious, adaptable summer preserve to take home with you.

Includes examples of different preserved foods; a display of useful books and resources; tasters of several preserved summer foods; your take-home preserve, and follow-up resources.

Please feel free to bring any surplus produce, seeds, cuttings, plants, gardening magazines etc. to swap and share!

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Please note that this is an event for Naarm/Melbourne gardeners only. If you live outside this area, please contact your council to find out what free sustainable gardening events are available locally. 

This venue is wheelchair accessible. If you have any access or support questions or requirements in order to participate fully (eg. interpreter), please let us know at least two weeks prior to the event and we will be pleased to assist you. Photos will be taken at this event, but there is an option to opt out on the day.

This My Smart Garden event is proudly presented by Brimbank City Council on the land of Wurundjeri and Boon Wurung peoples of the Kulin nation. My Smart Garden pays our respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that First Nations peoples have cared for Country sustainably for tens of thousands of years. 

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