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Field Trip to a North Carolina Family Garden Part III

Field Trip to a North Carolina Family Garden Part III. Preserving Vegetables and Fruits From the Garden. Students will learn how families preserve the fruits and vegetables that they grow in their gardens. This Power Point shows photographs of different ways to preserve food.

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Field Trip to a North Carolina Family Garden Part III

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  1. Field Trip to a North Carolina Family Garden Part III Preserving Vegetables and Fruits From the Garden Students will learn how families preserve the fruits and vegetables that they grow in their gardens. This Power Point shows photographs of different ways to preserve food.

  2. Why do families preserve fruits and vegetables? • To eat healthier, more natural foods. • To save money. • To carry on family traditions.

  3. How do families preserve their garden foods? • Foods may be frozen to preserve their freshness. • Foods can also be canned in glass jars by using hot, boiling water and a pressure canner or cold water canner.

  4. What kind of tools do families need to preserve foods? • Pressure canner or cold water canner • Freezer • Freezer bags or containers • Glass jars (quart and pint sizes), lids, and rims • Salt

  5. Pressure canner • The pressure canner is a cooking pot that gets very hot and preserves the food through high heat and pressure.

  6. Pressure canner • Here are jars inside the canner. You must use a jar lifter to take them out of the pot because they are very hot.

  7. Cold water canner • The cold water canner does not build up pressure. Instead, it preserves the foods through the heat of boiling water.

  8. Canning tools Stove, canning jar, measuring cup, funnel, jar lifter, rims, lids, and salt.

  9. Upright freezer • This picture shows the outside of an upright freezer. It looks a lot like your refrigerator. Wait until you see what is inside.

  10. Open up… • The inside of the freezer holds all of the vegetables that were preserved from the garden.You can see corn, squash, October beans, tomatoes and green peppers.

  11. Don’t forget the door… • The door of the upright freezer also holds food such as strawberries and mustard greens. There are also lots of good treats from the grocery store that cannot be grown in the family garden.

  12. Preparations In order to prepare the foods for freezing or canning, the family must follow some important steps: • Always wash all foods that come from the garden because they will have dirt and fertilizer on them. Fertilizer is used to help plants grow. • Cut off all bad places that have spoiled. • When preserving green beans, always remove the strings. • When preserving corn, always remove the husks (outer covering) and the silks (inner covering).

  13. Preparing yellow squash The family must wash the squash, then remove the ends before slicing and freezing.

  14. Preparing and freezing corn To prepare corn, the family must remove the husk and silk and wash the cob. The corn can be stored whole or scraped from the cob as kernels. They put it in bags or plastic containers to be frozen.

  15. Making pickles The family picks and scrubs cucumbers and puts them in jars. They pour boiling brine over the cucumbers to pickle them and add sprigs of dill, an herb, to flavor the pickles.

  16. An array of canned vegetables • Lots of vegetables, including beets, peppers, and tomatoes. Some canned vegetables, such as green beans, can stay fresh as long as 4 years.

  17. What did we learn? • Families can preserve their garden foods by freezing or canning them. • All kind of foods can be preserved, including summer squash, green beans, October beans, green pepper, and corn. • Cucumbers can be made into pickles. • Garden food offers families a healthy alternative for meals. • Garden foods often cost less than grocery store foods.

  18. Where did all of these pictures come from? These photos appear in the Creative Commons and can be found at their original source under the following URLs (listed by slide number). The rest of the photos were taken by Penny Willard. • 5: Penny Willard • 6: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amerk/233408163/in/set-72157594267462308/ • 7: Penny Willard • 8: Penny Willard • 9: Penny Willard • 10: Penny Willard • 11: Penny Willard • 13: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bengarland/sets/72157607392504676 • 14: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dazed81/sets/72157594239405124 • Lower left: Penny Willard • 15: http://www.flickr.com/photos/86571141@N00/sets/72157607075211243 • 16: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35256155@N00/1358043302

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