How To Preserve Your Herbs

What you'll learn
Learn how to forage for herbs
Learn 10 ways to preserve herbs
Learn how to sterilize jars
Learn how to use herbs to create usable products
Requirements
No pre experience needed
Description
This course will teach you how to process and preserve your herbs.When you have spent so much time either growing your herbs in tubs on the window sill or garden, or foraged in the wild - it is vital you learn to process and preserve your herbs for use through the year.Some herbs are only available at certain times of the year so you have to preserve them to be used for the rest of the year.Covered in this course is when to pick your herbs to get the best out of them. How to pick your herbs to preserve the plants and get your harvest in the safest way.Then I will take you through 10 ways to preserve your herbs - producing many different products to use through the year.I will teach you 4 different ways to dry your herbs,Show you how to make herb balms and oilsTake you through the process of making delicious and powerful herbal syrups and herbal honeys.Show you how to use vinegar to preserve your herbs as well as how you can use butter and olive oil to create delicious herbal concoctions that not only preserve your herbs but flavour your food. Not to mention giving you the benefits of the medicinal properties of the herbs.You will also learn how to sterilize your existing jars and bottles easily.Please note some of the course content is similar to Gifts and Presents To Make With HerbsWe also have a free How To Prepare For Foraging Guide available at our website and facebook page. Details for these are in this course.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Section 2: Preserving methods
Lecture 2 When to Pick and How to Pick Herbs
Lecture 3 Drying Herbs
Lecture 4 Making a Herb Balm and Using Oil to Preserve Herbs
Lecture 5 Making Herbal Honey
Lecture 6 Making a Tincture
Lecture 7 Using Butter or Oil to Preserve Herbs
Lecture 8 Using Vinegar to Preserve Herbs
Lecture 9 Using Sugar Or Salt to Preserve Herbs
Lecture 10 Making a Herbal Syrup
Section 3: Sterilizing Jars and Bottles
Lecture 11 Sterilizing
Section 4: Round Up
Lecture 12 Round Up
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