What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic

Gardening podcast. We are here with Margaret Roach, a lifelong organic

gardener. She's the founder of A Way to Garden, which is a fantastic blog,

but it doesn't stop there she's got a

podcast as well and she has many books including the one that just got re-released

and almost would you say that Margaret would you say this is almost a completely new edition or is it

yes it's very heavily redone right my how times have changed in 21 years yes right

right yeah and so it's it's a fantastic book very beautiful and as you thank you as you can tell by this week

There's just so much information in it so much so that we're gonna give a copy away margar and I on the podcast if you guys go to iTunes

and review the podcast with A Way to Garden somewhere in your comment you will be

entered and we'll be drawing probably sometime mid-July. But what we're talking about today as we move

through the book which I just love the way you did it you spring summer fall

winter right and and the tasks and and wisdom that you should know for each of those seasons.

We're getting into winter now and and we're talking about preserving herbs or as you

call it putting up a year of herbs. It's not something I have a lot of experience with to be honest with you because most of my herbs I just let them go and they come back the next year or or they don't.

But either way I'm either using them all or they're just going to come back so how do you

approach your climate where if you don't use them or or preserve them in some way they're

just going to die and that was wasted effort.

Well and I think even if even in your very favorable climate where you could potentially grow

them much of the year or have your own supply if you wanted to.

Fresh, I still think sometimes we have sort of boom and bus cycles, you know, we have a lot of

something, something does really well and I hate to waste it right so there's also that it's like

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