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Preserve Foods Safely!

Did you know that pressure canning is the only recommended method for canning meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetables? The bacterium Clostridium botulinum is destroyed in low-acid foods when they are processed at the correct time and pressure in pressure canners. Using boiling water canners for these foods poses a real risk of botulism poisoning.

Home canning has changed greatly in the 180 years since it was introduced as a way to preserve food. Scientists have found ways to produce safer, higher quality products. Research is continually being conducted in areas that affect food preservation recommendations. Make sure your food preservation information is always current with up-to-date tested guidelines.

For up-to-date information or questions related to home food preservation, contact the WVU Monongalia County Extension Service at 304-291-7201 or visit the National Center for Home Food Preservation

Office Information

WVU Monongalia County Extension Office
26 Commerce Drive, WesMon Plaza
Morgantown, WV 26501

Phone: 304-291-7201
Fax: 304-291-7202
Hours 8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri
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Hannah Fincham – Extension Agent, Families and Health
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Home is where the heart is and family and home issues are at the heart of Extension personal health programming. Under this heading are the areas of Community Educational Outreach Service (or CEOS which includes CEOS Clubs); Dining with Diabetes; and the Family Nutrition Program (or FNP).

Community Educational Outreach Service (CEOS)

The primary purpose of CEOS is education.
The basis for its existence is the desire of people to improve the quality of their living, to find and live the “good life”, to inspire families and individual citizens to make life-long learning a great adventure as they advance toward enriched living in the home and in the enlarged community. Other purposes are to further strengthen, develop, coordinate, and extend adult education and to improve the quality of life in cooperation with the Extension Service and to increase mutual knowledge and understanding. The person who continues education and who seeks ever-broadening horizons is best satisfied and fulfilled in serving the family and community. More information about Monongalia County CEOS

Taking Charge of Your Health and Safety

Taking Charge of Your Health and Safety is designed to develop and provide health education materials for seniors in rural West Virginia counties. Taking Charge programs provide health promotion tools to participants on arthritis, heart health and diabetes, as well as eating right, staying active, and preventing falls. One of the goals of the program is to help seniors remain independent and able to take care of themselves in their own home. This program can be taught in six different one-hour sessions or can be condensed into one one-hour session. To learn more about Taking Charge of Your Health and Safety or to request this program for meetings or other organizational events, please call Hannah Fincham at the Monongalia County Extension Office at 291-7201.

Healthy Families/Healthy Children

The Mission of the West Virginia Healthy Families/Healthy Children Initiative is to promote activities that support and enhance the well-being of West Virginia families and children through the development and maintenance of marriage and family skills education. For more information about the initiative and to find out when activities are being held in Monongalia County, visit the Healthy Families/Healthy Children website

Dining with Diabetes (DwD)

Diabetes is a common, serious, and costly disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that the rate of diabetes in West Virginia in 2005 was 10.7%. West Virginia is ranked second in prevalence among the 54 states and territories.

West Virginia is also ranked second in obesity and seventh in physical inactivity. These lifestyle measures combined with the fact that West Virginia has the oldest median age in the nation lead to an expected continued rise in both prevalence and incidence of diabetes.

Diabetes is called a lifestyle disease. Making changes in lifestyle can control diabetes and many of the complications of diabetes. The Dining with Diabetes program was designed to help individuals make these changes in lifestyle. Dining with Diabetes teaches how to prepare meals that are healthy and taste good. Participants will also have an opportunity to sample recipes, practice low-impact exercises and learn about various tests that are important for persons who have diabetes.
Click here to find out when the next Dining with Diabetes classes will be held and how you can register.

Family Nutrition Program (FNP)

The West Virginia Family Nutrition Program (FNP) is a statewide outreach program which focuses on nutrition, food, and physical activity through multiple projects, community-based initiatives and key partnerships. FNP prioritizes accountability and documents its impact on related behaviors of West Virginia’s limited resource families. As a visible and critical part of WVU and WVU Extension Service, we maintain a strong research base and experiential, facilitative approach to delivering information to our focus audience. More information about adult family nutrition program

In addition, the Family Nutrition Program (FNP) serves youth audiences in 31 West Virginia counties. Youth target audiences are 3rd, 4th and 5th graders ages 9-12 from limited resource families. More information about FNP for youth in Monongalia County

Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. David Miller, Director, Cooperative Extension Service, West Virginia University. West Virginia University is governed by the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the WVU Board of Governors. Programs and activities offered by the WVU Extension Service are available to all persons without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age, veteran status, political beliefs, sexual orientation, national origin, and marital or family status.