You're listening to the Beginners Garden podcast. I'm Jill McShehehehe with Journey Withjil.net,

and my goal is to give beginning gardeners the you are starting to get a good

harvest of some of your summer crops, or maybe they're just about coming on. And if you're like me,

maybe there are some crops that just haven't turned out the way that you hope they would.

But hopefully, you have some that have just really produced well for you. And if that's

the case, then you're going to probably be wanting to know how you can preserve them in some way. There's just

so much fresh zucchini we can eat, right? Whether you make a whole entire preserving plan so that you can have as much food as possible

to be able to save for the winter use like I do, or you really don't care that much about preserving,

but if you have a lot of something, you would like to make sure it doesn't go to waste.

This episode is for you. We're going to be talking about freezing, canning,

and dehydrating basics. And I'm going to give you a supply list of my favorite things to use.

If you happen to get interrupted while you're listening to this podcast episode, you can go directly

to Journey with Jill.net slash preserve to get that list so that you can go directly to journey withjill.net slash preserve to get that list so that you can see

exactly the supplies that I'm talking about in the podcast. But before we get started,

can I just pause for a second and say, I'm really glad to be back with you. I know it seems

like I've been with you weekly,

which I have ever since January. But we had a vacation coming up, and then we had my kids

getting out of school. And we just had a lot of things hitting our family in June. And so I did a lot

of my podcast episodes ahead of time, just kind of stealth recording a lot of them.

And now that things have slowed down a little bit, I'm actually back to a rhythm.

And it's been like a month, I think, since I've recorded a podcast episode.

And I've missed talking with you guys.

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