57: How to Get Started in Home Canning with Melissa K Norris
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Most of us, even if we have a small garden, will harvest more than we can consume fresh. Unless you want to give it all away, you will have to decide whether to let it go bad or preserve it. In this episode, Pioneering Today's Melissa K. Norris gives us the basics on how to get started in home canning.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill Mc be talking about how to get started with home canning. |
| 0:41.4 | Today's guest is going to be someone that many of you are already going to be very familiar with, and that is Melissa K. Norris. You first heard from |
| 0:49.0 | Melissa in episode 18 of the Beginners Garden podcast, where we talked all about gardening. And you may remember |
| 0:56.3 | just a few weeks ago when I shared with you her modern homesteading summit, which I know many of you |
| 1:02.6 | guys got a lot of great information from that. I know I did. Melissa is someone that I have followed |
| 1:09.6 | for years, actually from the very beginning part of my |
| 1:13.4 | gardening journey, and I have loved everything that she has shared, and I've gained so much |
| 1:18.8 | knowledge from her. So I am so grateful that she is on the podcast today sharing her knowledge |
| 1:24.4 | on home canning. Now, home canning is something she is very passionate about |
| 1:29.3 | and those of you guys who listen to her podcast, which is the pioneering today podcast, you know this |
| 1:35.1 | already. And canning has become something that I have become very passionate about as well. |
| 1:41.2 | It's something I started from my very first season because I wanted to be able to |
| 1:45.6 | grow as much food as I could to last our family the entire year. Whether you fall into that |
| 1:52.1 | category or not, chances are that you may be growing a little bit more or harvesting a little bit |
| 1:58.8 | more than you can keep up with eating fresh. Many of you guys |
| 2:02.5 | share with other people and maybe you even take some of your excess harvest to the farmer's |
| 2:07.8 | market like we do. But you also may be wanting to explore how to preserve the extra harvest that |
| 2:15.0 | you're just not able to keep up with eating fresh. If that's the case, |
| 2:19.9 | Melissa is going to give you a basic guide today as I chat with her on getting started with |
| 2:25.8 | home canning. We're going to talk about why you should consider canning. Compare between canning |
| 2:32.4 | versus freezing. We'll also talk about a very common question, |
| 2:36.8 | and that is, what should you water bath can and what should you pressure can? And for those of you |
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