Hey there and welcome back to the Beginners Garden podcast. In this podcast, we typically talk about

growing your own food, but especially this time of year as we get into July and August,

I like to talk a little bit about preserving your food because whether you do a whole lot of

preserving like I've done in the past or you just have a little bit of extra in your garden

that you want to put up for later, then you just have a little bit of extra in your garden that you want

to put up for later, then you may want some tips on how to do this most effectively and most

efficiently. And if you're a beginner, you may be a little confused about how to do this safely

and how to do this in a way that actually works with your schedule. You may be looking at different

shortcuts you can use because maybe you've seen these marathon batched canning sessions and maybe

you don't have time to do that or maybe you don't have enough garden harvest to be able to do that.

So you're looking for ideas to be able to preserve your harvest as well as you can with what you

have. Especially when we're beginning,

there's a lot of information out there

that can be really confusing,

especially if you're online

and I think there's so much information right now

that makes it even harder to some degree

because we suffer from information overload.

So I'm gonna make this episode quite simple for you.

I'm gonna be talking about five

shortcuts that I recommend that you not take when it comes to preserving, whether that's because

of the safety issue of it or whether that's because of the quality that you might get in the

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