Welcome back everyone to the epic gardening podcast we've got a I think two

time guest Jill mix she of journey with Jill she's got a awesome podcast the

beginners garden podcast and then she also has a book called vegetable

gardening for beginners a simple guide to growing vegetables at home but

you're also doing a lot of other stuff Jill you got this course and we're

talking today about preserving food which is something that as I scale up here

at the homestead I definitely want to learn a lot more about and it's not my

wheelhouse so first of all thanks for coming on thanks for having me I'm super

excited to talk about this yeah me too if this is your second time right yeah I

think it is okay cool right so I've been harvesting finally here at the

homestead you know I've got a bunch of potatoes I've I'll have some garlic

pretty soon hopefully and the summer stuff of course we'll start coming out

and so in the world of food preserving let's say you know maybe you're a

pandemic gardener you started last year and you do have a surplus how do you

even start thinking about preserving food in the first place well I think the

big thing that you need to do is like you said you know what's in your garden

and you know what's coming out of your garden or going to be obviously we're

not really harvesting a whole lot now like you are being a little bit behind you

in our climate but the first time the first thing to do would be to see what you

have and what potentially you could preserve but then I would even almost go

back this behind that and talk about what I did because I actually started

thinking about preserving before I even really planted my first garden

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