Online courses in home canning

There are now many online opportunities to learn about safe home canning.

Some are free, some have a nominal fee.

To the best of our knowledge, all these courses are available to anyone, no matter where they reside in the world.

Resources and links last verified January 2019. If you know of additional please let us know.

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National Course

National Center for Home Food Preservation online course. Free. NOTE: THIS COURSE IS UNAVAILABLE AS OF FALL 2015 OWING TO INSUFFICIENT FUNDING TO KEEP IT RUNNING AT THIS PRESENT TIME. (Feel free to let your elected representatives know if you think it’s important the government try to find a few shekels somewhere in its $3.5 trillion budget to get this course back up.)

A definitive online self-study course on preserving food at home. Training modules include: “Introduction to Food Preservation”, “General Canning”, “Canning Acid Foods” and “Canning Low-Acid Foods”.

University Extension Courses

University of Alaska (Free set of Youtube tutorials, as of 2019. See bottom of this page for additional Alaska links)
University of Idaho: Preserve at home course. (See here for more info on how the course is delivered: Meisenbach, Terry. New Generation of Home Canners Learn Online through Preserve @ Home. 4 April 2013. )
University of Illinois Extension ($30.00 as of 2019)
University of Iowa ($35.00 as of 2019)
Kansas State University and the University of Missouri Extension Services: Series of 17 short canning video tutorials (Valid as of 2019)
Michigan State University Extension ($10.00 as of 2019)
University of Minnesota learning modules (Online tutorial videos)
University of Minnesota (to arrange a canning course hosted by your org)
Washington State ($25.00 as of 2019)

Alaska Additional Links

Dinstel, Roxie Rodgers. Food Preservation. University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Revised March 2013. [Links updated Jan. 2019]