Empowering Your Financial Well-Being and Healthy Living

The Gaston County Center is proud to offer a variety of programs designed to support you in managing your finances, improving your health, and enhancing your overall well-being. We now provide workshops on Financial Resource Management covering a range of essential topics such as: debt management and elimination, developing a household budget, and understanding routine savings. In addition to financial education, we offer workshops on Food Preservation, Nutrition, and Wellness to help you eat smart and move more every day.

Workshop Information: For more details or to register, visit our Events Calendar or contact Jonette Mungo at jemungo@ncsu.edu or 704.922.2111.

We look forward to helping you take the next step towards a healthier, financially secure future!

• Creating and managing a budget
• Using credit responsibly
• Paying off debt
• Preventing fraud
• Understanding banking services
• And much more!
• Regularly scheduled workshops are offered throughout the year
• Both in-person and virtual options are available
• The majority of workshops are offered at no cost to participants

Food Preservation

Wanting to get started with home canning, dehydration, and freezing? Or perhaps it's been a while since you've canned?

Contact our office to schedule an annual test of your dial gauge pressure canner.

Visit our Food Preservation Workshop Series - Preserving the Harvest Register for a class and learn alongside others through in-person hands-on workshops or conveniently scheduled webinars.

Find other Food Preservation Resources on our website.

Supporting local farms and producers is the strength of our local food system. If the national food supply chain broke down, where would you source your fresh produce and ingredients? Getting to know our local farms and producers is a vital step in strengthening our local food system as well as creating a family legacy of healthy eating, healthy cooking, and healthy families.

Farm to Fork workshops are scheduled for youth and adults. Youth workshops are conducted with the Gaston 4-H youth program. Adult programs include an online webinar before each in-person hands-on cooking session. These workshops are scheduled to accommodate working adult schedules.

Farm to Fork adult workshops include:

• The Art of Grilling Meat
• Jams for All Seasons
• Stir-Fry Delights
• Broths and Soups for Cold Days
• Delightful Desserts
• Great Grains
• Noodles Galore

Our Farm to Fork programs celebrate our local food community and the people who work so hard to bring delicious local foods to our plates year-round. Each workshop dives into the production and history of the recipe ingredients. Preserving culinary culture is also a great way to pass on family history.

You can learn more about Farm to Fork by visiting the Center for Environmental Farming and Systems (CEFS) website.