Family and Consumer Sciences

• Parents as Teachers
• Grandparents raising grandchildren
• Master Food Preservers
  For help with all your canning needs, we have three excellent Master Food Preservers in Gooding County.  These women receive regular updates in the latest food preservation information, are vitally interested in all aspects of food preservation, and are involved in doing food preservation themselves.
  Peggy Candy, 208-837-6297, ydnac@magiclink.com
  Karen McHan, 208-934-8629, karen-mchan@yahoo.com
  Arlene Shaw, 208-934-5132, markarlenenuts@yahoo.com 
  
  Canning directions are generally written for sea level.  Adjustments need to be made in the directions for our altitude.  Your canning book or recipe should tell you the adjustments for altitude.
   
• Altitudes for communities in Gooding County:
  
  Bliss            3262
  Gooding       3573
  Hagerman     2950
  Tuttle          3309
  Wendell        3435
  
  Use the 3,000 foot adjustments for Hagerman, the 4,000 foot adjustments for the other communities.
• https://www.homecanning.com/usa/ for more canning information.
   
• Resources for Idaho.  For the online catalog of publications from the University of Idaho, go to
  http://info.ag.uidaho.edu/
• Extension Focus, District III newsletter, go to
  http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/district3/Nov%20Focus%20Main%20Page.htm