At their late summer Tomato Workshops Todd and Jordan Champagne of Happy Girl Kitchens will show you how to preserve your own tomatoes using four different recipes. 

After an hour-long introductory talk covering the basics of food preservation (including topics of hot water bath canning and the PH scale), you'll head into the kitchen to get to work making some of their reknowned salsa and spicy tomato juice.

You'll be shown how to preserve whole heirloom tomatoes and dry-farmed tomatoes in a brine solution and then sit down to a sumptuous organic lunch. Upcoming Tomato Preservation Workshops are scheduled for August 13th in Pacific Grove and September 3 in Oakland.

Happy girl kitchen company's Workshops Food Preservation Workshops are held in Happy Girl Kitchen's Cafe & Kitchen location on Cannery Row in Pacific Grove , at Live Earth Farm in Watsonville and in Oakland . They involve a full day of  ferment, preservation and inspiration from 10am – 3pm, and include organic lunch. The cost is $135 For more information contact Todd & Jordan Champagne -  831-373-4475 -