2024 Training Info
2024 Application
Who Can Apply
- Priority given to San Bernardino/Riverside county residents. If space allows, neighboring county residents may be accepted.
- Applicants must be comfortable using a computer and accessing the internet. Class lessons, quizzes and homework are online using Google Classroom; class communication is via email.
How to Apply
- Attend one of two online informational meetings to learn more about the volunteer requirements as well as the selection and training process. Each session lasts one hour and will be recorded. Attendance or viewing of the information meeting is a mandatory pre-requisite to apply. Please rsvp online to attend either training information meeting or to receive a link to the meeting recording at http://ucanr.edu/2024-mfp-training-mtg.
- Friday, October 20: 12:00 Noon—1:00 pm
- Thursday, November 9, 2022: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
- Complete and submit the online application by the end of Sunday, November 26, 2023. Interviews will be during the week of December 11.
What We’ll Do
- Review applicants. Main criteria for acceptance: 1) prior community service, 2) experience teaching, either by giving presentations, writing, or in one-on-one situations, 3) experience/interest in home food preservation.
- Request a DOJ Clearance, including fingerprinting.
- Offer two online training tracks to choose from either Thursday evenings from 6:30 – 8:30 or Friday afternoons from 2:00 – 4:00. Once accepted, students will choose which track they will attend throughout the training program. (Students who miss a class may join the other track to make up a missed lesson.) Hands-on lab classes will include students from both online tracks.
- Teach you how to preserve food successfully using scientifically researched home processes.
- Teach you how to educate our community about safe home food preservation.
- Provide you with plenty of fun volunteer and continuing education opportunities.
What You’ll Do If Accepted
- Pay the $300 course fee by January 3, 2024.
- Attend the 11 classes from 2:00 – 4:00 pm on the Friday dates listed, as well as the in-person labs. Only one class may be missed and must be completed outside of normal class time with program coordinator.
- Complete the Live Scan fingerprinting process by February 9, 2024. Instructions will be sent upon acceptance to the training program.
- Attend at least one public class hosted by a UC Master Food Preserver Program; either in person or online, by April 19, 2024, as part of your training program.
- Complete 50 volunteer hours your first full program year, then 25 volunteer and 12 continuing education hours each year thereafter.
- Pass an annual food safety/preservation reappointment quiz.
Have fun!
Training Details
Lectures and demos:
Online via Zoom.
In-person hands-on labs:
Highland Library 7863 Central Ave, Highland, CA 92346
Training Fee: $300
Important Dates
2023 |
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10/20 |
Training Info Meeting |
11/9 |
Training Info Meeting |
11/29 |
Applications Due |
12/11 |
Interviews Begin |
2024 |
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1/4 |
Payment Due |
1/10 |
Pre-Class Zoom Prep (optional) |
1/11 or 1/12 |
Class 1: Orientation |
1/18 or 1/19 |
Class 2: Food Safety |
1/25 or 1/26 |
Class 3: Cold Storage |
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Lab 1: Cold Storage |
2/9 |
Fingerprints Forms Due |
2/8 or 2/9 |
Class 4: High Acid Canning |
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Lab 2: High Acid Canning |
2/22 or 2/23 |
Class 5: Pickling & Fermenting |
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Lab 3: Pickling/Fermenting |
2/29 or 3/1 |
Class 6: Fruit Spreads |
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Lab 4: Fruit spreads |
3/14 or 3/15 |
Class 7: Low Acid Canning |
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Lab 5: Low Acid Canning |
4/4 or 4/5 |
Class 8: Drying |
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Lab 6: Drying/Emergency Prep |
4/18 or 4/19 |
Class 9: Kitchen Pest Management |
5/2 or 5/3 |
Class 10: Emergency Prep |
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Student Presentations |
5/16 or 5/17 |
Class 11: Being and MFP |
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Program Completion Celebration |