195. Preserving the Garden Harvest: Simple Approaches to Long-Term Food Storage | Melissa K. Norris

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, it is the time of year where our gardens are producing in abundance. All of our hard work in the garden is starting to pay off, and we don’t want to let any of that hard work go to waste. Knowing how best to preserve your produce is just as important as knowing how to grow it.

Melissa K. Norris is a food preservation guru, and she is joining us to dive into the various methods of preserving. We discuss which methods are easiest for beginners and address some safety concerns around canning and botulism. The good news in food preservation is that you have a variety of different options and most are much more simple than you think! No matter how little experience you may have in preserving, you will feel confident in getting started with Melissa’s extensive knowledge and experience to inspire you!

In this episode, we cover:

The medical wake-up call that led Melissa to transform her family’s nutrition
Where to start if you want to pursue a whole foods diet
An overview of different preservation methods
Concerns around preserving in oil
What is the easiest method of preservation for a beginner?
The process of curing root crops before long-term storage
Go-to preservation method for tomatoes
Pro tips for pickling vegetables
Addressing concerns around canning safety

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Everything Worth Preserving by Melissa K. Norris

Episode 125 of the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast with Melissa

Lisa on the Pioneering Today podcast with Melissa

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0:00.0	And he said, you've got to get off all of these medications and you've got to figure
0:03.8	out how to control us by the foods you eat.
0:05.3	It was a much bigger motivation than I had ever had to figure out the health part and
0:10.3	to really dive into our foods and what I was cooking with and what we were eating.
0:14.5	We quickly started raising more of our own food.
0:17.7	We have a relatively very short growing season, which means I've got to preserve a lot.
0:21.6	If I want to be able to eat those crops year round, that was really where I started diving
0:25.3	in deeper.
0:26.3	I already knew how to pressure can and to water bath can.
0:28.8	And those were really besides the deep freezer.
0:30.9	Those were the three methods that I relied on really heavily and then started branching
0:36.4	out and figuring what are other ways to preserve food.
0:39.2	That was really my catalyst for putting up as much food as we do.
0:44.2	My name is Lisa, mother of seven in creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse
0:49.0	on Boone.
0:50.0	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a
0:54.6	little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
1:03.1	Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast today.
1:07.1	We're going to have on Melissa Norris.
1:09.6	Now you might know her from her YouTube channel, her blog, Instagram.
1:14.1	She also has the home studying magazine.
1:16.8	She has a podcast, so so many places.
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