PRESERVE: Over the weekend, we noticed our first green tomato of the season on one of our plants at home.

We’re sure many of you are also starting to see the literal fruit of your gardening labors and are thinking about what you want to do with it all.

Penn State Extension is offering resources to help people preserve their delicious homegrown fruits and veggies.

As a press release from the organization put it, “This certainly has been a booming year for home gardeners! With all the rain and plenty of hot steamy days, many families are starting to harvest their homegrown produce and thinking about preserving the excess that they cannot immediately consume.”

Among the resources are the “Let’s Preserve Newsletter,” a Home Food Preservation workshop and fact sheets and articles about food preservation.

To receive the newsletter, produced by Lancaster County Extension educators Stacy Reed and Martha Zepp, in your email, visit www.extension.psu.edu/aboutme. If you’d prefer  a print newsletter, call the Cameron County Extension Office at 814-486-3350 to get on the mailing list.

Readers can find articles and fact sheets with recipes at extension.psu.edu/food/preservation.

If you don’t have internet access, “Printed copies of these fact sheets are available by calling the extension office,” according to Penn State. “Apples, peaches, pickles, tomatoes and blueberries are just a few of the fact sheet topics.”

Meanwhile, the Home Food Preservation workshop will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Potter County Extension Office, 7 Water St., Coudersport. Call the Potter office at 814-274-8540 to register. There is a small fee to attend.

“Boiling water bath and pressure canning techniques will be discussed and reasons why certain foods must be processed using pressure canners,” the organization stated about the workshop. “Participants will receive a full set of the ‘Let’s Preserve’ fact sheets as well as testing of their pressure canner dial gauges if they bring the lids along to the workshop.”