Have you ever wanted to learn how to brew your own delicious beer, questioned what to do with those amazing fresh peaches you want throughout the year, or wanted to grow your tomatoes just a few months longer?

The Backyard Homesteading Series has got it all covered.

The Backyard Homesteading Series is offering three, three-hour programs starting in early June to the beginning of July with an extra canning 101 workshop at the beginning of August.

Classes include crafting beer 101, grow longer: extending the growing season and canning 101.

Crafting beer 101 will be held at the new funk brewery in Emmaus from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 7 and will cover the basics of brewing your very own beer starting from growing your own grains and hops all the way through the brewing and bottling your beer.

Grow longer: extending the growing season will take place from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 12 at Red Cat Farm in New Tripoli.

Grow longer will give an overview of different structures that will allow you to grow produce longer, as well as highlight the costs and benefits of the different methods. You will learn how to plant crops for a fall, early spring, and even a winter season. You then will get to take a tour of Red Cat Farm to see all these structures in use around an actual, working farm.

Canning 101 will be provided over two sessions. One will be Thursday, June 26 and the other will take place Thursday, August 7. They will both be held at the Miller Family Building at Cedar Crest College and will cover two different types of canning. In the first workshop you will learn how to preserve your high-acid foods with water bath canning.

You will practice hands-on canning salsa and jam with our own master food preserver and even get to take some of your canned goods home with you the second workshop will cover pressure canning and preserving and you will learn how to safely can low-acid foods, such as vegetables or meats, in a pressure canner.

As with the other workshop there will be hands-on practice and even a demo on how to make your own sauerkraut and learn how to use a food dehydrator.

For more information or to register, visit http://extension.psu.edu/plants/events.