What is up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. We are joined again with

Melissa Norris and epic fifth generation homesteader. Five generations of homesteading.

That to me is crazy. I'm a first generation urban

gardener, so I've got a long way to go to catch up to you, Melissa. But like me, she helps people use organic

methods to grow their own food. She actually has her own podcast. It's called

pioneering today. I highly recommend you guys check that out. And today we're

talking about something that I've really only started to dip my toes into the

water up and that would be preserving food as you start to grow and actually

get some really nice epic harvests from your garden, you know sometimes you might have too much

or you might want to save some and eat it in the fall, eat it in the winter.

And so today we're talking about creating a preserving plan for your garden.

And Melissa actually has an entire course on this called Home Canning with Confidence if you guys are really looking to dive deep,

but we're going to dive into it today.

And Melissa, this is something again, like I mentioned, I'm not exceptionally skilled at this yet, so I would love for you to drop some

knowledge on us. Okay I'm super excited so I'm going to break it down and I'm going to

give you guys how I come up with my preservation plan for the garden produce

but I want to do so in a way that you're going to be able to apply it and come up with your own customized preservation plan because one of the things that I try to do with our garden and it's one of the reasons that I wrote my new book that won't come out until January

but the family garden plan growing in years worth of sustainable and healthy food is I wanted to make sure that what we were growing and this is going to sound so

basic and almost kind of like well duh but that we were growing what we were

eating and we were eating what we were growing and it was food that my family is consuming

and it's food that I can preserve to take us through a whole year because

unlike you lucky people down in San Diego and in the warmer parts of the country.

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