This Home Canning 101 workshop will cover water bath canning as well as pressure canning methods. A canning demonstration will be included.

Presented by Taylor Conner, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator.

For more information or to register, contact Taylor Conner by email or phone (405-713-1125).

Get ready to add a little more color and life into your home with the free Oklahoma City Flower & Garden Festival! Attendees will be able to explore breathtaking botanicals like flowers, herbs and succulents while browsing unique jewelry pieces as well as jewelry, garden art, crafts.

For more information, visit the event webpage, or contact Myriad Botanical Gardens by email or phone (405-445-7080).

Learn this history – and the how – of baking in this All You Knead to Know workshop. Baked goods made from grain have been a global state of life for over several millennia. They has provided calories and protein to generations of people when other foods were not available. Amazingly, to a lot of people, how to bake a loaf of bread at home is still a mystery, let alone, knowing how the grain was produced that supplied the flour. Anyone from a chef to a farmer, as well as bakers in small and large bakeries, will find interest in this specialized workshop just for the baking industry. Baking is an art and a food science that allows many components to work together.

Cost: $100/participant

A $25 fee will be billed to those who fail to cancel or attend. The registration fees cover lunch, refreshments and workshop material costs.

For more information or to register, visit the event webpage, or contact Karen Smith by email or phone (405-744-6277).

In this workshop, learn to preserve your jams and jellies and other foods using the water bath canning method. Includes current USDA canning manual.

For more information or to register, visit the event webpage, or contact Joy Rhodes by email or phone (580-237-1228).

In this free Success in Summer workshop, learn about summer landscape maintenance, lawn care, increasing and cooking your vegetable harvest, and more.

Presented by Julia Laughlin, Horticulture Educator, Taylor Conner, Family and Consumer Sciences Educator, and Joshua Campbell, Urban Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator.

The workshop is free, but registration is required.

For more information or to register, contact Julia Laughlin by email or phone (405-713-1125).

Join this food preservation basics workshop, in partnership with the Grady County OSU Extension Service, to learn the basics of canning, freezing, pickling, and dehydration. Understanding how to prevent food spoilage while achieving high quality home preserved products will be presented in this 2 hour class. Techniques, tips, and equipment needed will be covered during the class.

For more information or to register, visit the workshop webpage, or contact Riley DuBois by email or phone (405-224-7220).

Join Tulsa County Extension for this jelly canning workshop. The workshop is limited to 8 participants, with a $25 registration fee due by noon on May 18.

For more information or to register, contact Debbie Owens by email or phone (918-746-3706).

This free workshop will cover the basics of watering so that you know how much water your plants need and can have success with water conservation in your garden this summer.

Water is critical to maintaining a successful landscape or vegetable garden but can be expensive and time-consuming. Harvested rainwater can serve as an irrigation source for landscape plants, lawns, and vegetable gardens and reduce the amount of municipal water used in the garden, which can save money on water bills.

This class will be led by Joshua Campbell of the Oklahoma County OSU Extension Office.

After the class you can also check out gardening tools!

The workshop is free, but registration is required.

For more information or to register, visit the event webpage, or contact the Metro Library System by email or phone (405-424-1437).

In this workshop, learn why we should be serious about backyard conservation, how we are in the perfect situation to change things, and examples of how to be the conservationist and champions these species need.

Whether it’s a 2-acre property, 20 feet of backyard fence line, or a 10-gallon pot on an apartment balcony, these are the front lines of species conservation and can be their most important spaces. Oklahoma is an environmental wonderland, yet our wildlife is struggling to hold on to the world we’ve created. Our role in the environment now is more important than ever, and our location means that we are primed to set the tone for ensuring our most foundational species have a space.

Instructor: Sean Washington is an ecologist and science communicator in Oklahoma City, teaching the public about the importance of the natural world. He studied wildlife biology at Colorado State University and returned to OKC to work at the Oklahoma City Zoo, and with OKC Parks to increase public education about natural resources. Sean is an avid birder and wildlife photographer.

For more information or to register, visit the event webpage, or contact CommonWealth Urban Farms by email or phone (405-795-2044).