Canning With Becky

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Canning can be an intimidating task for those new to it. However, Becky says that once you get a handle on it, there’s nothing to worry about. Her love of canning was born from necessity to some extent, and to a greater extent, from her love of cooking. In this episode, she shares tips and tricks, and the best foods to incorporate in the practice of canning. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3rBkbvd Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45mvpBA Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3F73r1Z EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3trpkqc Connect With Becky Jones: While working as a dental hygienist, Becky’s passion for scratch cooking grew into a passion for knowing where her food comes from. A couple of years ago, she and her husband had the opportunity to buy a home on a small one-acre parcel of land. In January 2021, she started the Acre Homestead YouTube channel to document her second year of gardening. What started as a personal project grew into a full-time job within a matter of months! Today, she shares her passion for homegrown, homemade, and locally-sourced food. Instagram YouTube Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think when you think of homesteading, you think of these beautiful pantries or root
0:07.9	sellers that are filled to the brim with jars of everything under the sun.
0:12.6	I know that's what I personally think about and to be honest, I'll even fantasize it
0:18.2	about it a little bit of a future root seller that I might have.
0:21.9	We have Becky Jones back on the show from Acre homestead on YouTube and across social
0:26.3	media.
0:28.2	Dare I say, this is one of the things that perhaps people are very attracted to your content
0:33.5	for Becky is the way that you showcase the full process of preserving a lot of the stuff
0:38.6	that you're growing in the garden, yeah?
0:40.3	Yeah, I think so.
0:41.1	I think it's fun to see the going from seed to garden to harvest into a meal slash putting
0:50.2	it on the pantry shelf for later use.
0:52.2	Yeah, and you mentioned yesterday that you've got, you said a hundred pounds of
0:56.5	yes, so when we're talking canning for you, is that, I mean, maybe if someone doesn't know
1:04.3	the basics, are we talking, you know, classic canning, like a water bath canning sort of method,
1:09.8	and then you're putting those up for the winter, basically, right?
1:14.4	Yeah, so I started out when I started canning was water bath canning and it was tomatoes and
1:22.5	applesauce was where like the two things and then jam and then it's kind of evolved from there
1:27.7	to now where I try to have a couple convenient type things on the pantry shelf too.
1:33.1	So things like pizza sauce and ketchup and condiments, I guess, so just trying to replace
1:39.3	what I would buy at the grocery store with my homemade or locally sourced if possible.
1:44.0	And then last year I did start pressure canning too, which is where you can
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