About this Event
Do you have a shoebox filled with stained, handwritten recipe cards, index cards with faded ink, or fragile clippings of beloved family meals? Over time, paper degrades, writing fades, and kitchen spills happen.
Join us at the Randolph County Agriculture Center for a free, hands-on workshop dedicated to preserving your family's culinary legacy. Beyond saving physical cards, this session will guide you through digitizing your collection using both mobile devices and specialized scanning hardware, helping you take the first steps toward building a shareable, printable family cookbook that can be gifted or passed down for generations.
What You Will Learn
- Preservation Basics: Best practices for safely cleaning, handling, and storing delicate paper recipes and vintage cookbooks.
- Multi-Device Digitization: Practical techniques for digitizing recipes using your smartphone camera, high-resolution Epson flatbed photo scanners, and a CZUR overhead book scanner for bound or delicate materials.
- In-Class Computer Practice: Hands-on guidance using provided MacBook Air workstations to organize and back up your digital recipe files.
- First Steps to a Custom Cookbook: Simple workflows for organizing your digitized collection into printable recipe book layouts, combining memories with photos, and choosing affordable self-printing options.
- Sharing Your Legacy: Easy ways to share interactive digital archives and PDF cookbooks with relatives near and far.
Equipment Provided & What to Bring
- Equipment Provided On-Site: Epson flatbed photo scanners, a CZUR overhead document scanner, and MacBook Air laptops will be set up and ready for participant use.
- What to Bring: 1 to 3 original family recipes (cards, pages, or clippings), old cookbooks, or other recipe memorabilia to scan during class. You are also welcome to bring your smartphone or tablet to practice mobile scanning techniques.
Event Details
- Date: Thursday, November 12, 2026
- Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
- Location: Randolph County Agriculture Center, Allen Ray McNeill Education & Resource Center
- Cost: Free (Pre-registration required due to limited equipment stations)
Space is limited to ensure all participants receive dedicated access to scanning stations and laptops. Reserve your free spot today!
Event venue & nearby stays
Randolph County, NC Agricultural Center, 1880 US Highway 64 East, Asheboro, United States
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