First Nations Institute Australia (FNIA)
Food Preservation Short Course
Self Paced 20-hour course to help you understand more about preserving food.
A course for home gardener and hobby farmers through to commercial food producers and processors. It expand your ability to get better value out of fruit, vegetables and other foods; reduce wastage, and diversify the products you can create from primary produce.
- Farmers can learn how to value add to the produce from their farm
- Families can learn how to store food safely, and to make pickles, jams, preserves and other food products
- Food retailers and restaurant staff will better understand how to handle the food they deal with, to improve the shelf life and quality of produce.
- Learn to better understand canning/bottling, pickling, freezing, drying, and much more.
Our 20 hour courses are self paced and will help you understand a topic in a short amount of time. You can work through the course when you like- test yourself with mini-tests along the way. There are extra case studies or research you can undertake if you would really like to get into the topic. Once you have completed the lessons and self assessment tasks, there is a final exam undertaken online- you can then download your personalised certificate.
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
