Imagine never having to grocery shop again.

Okay, maybe you're not ever going to have to grocery shop again, but if you live the way

today's guests live, your grocery shopping will be ridiculously reduced.

Because today, I'm joined by Jeremy and Stacey Hill.

They are the husband and wife homesteaders behind Gooseberry Bridge Farm and preserving experts.

They actually just came out with an entire book all about preserving food from your garden

and all the different ways that you can do it.

They've spent two decades learning how to feed their family of eight from their backyard,

year round.

Not just like tomatoes that get you through September or October,

they're feeding their family in the middle of winter from stuff that they have grown in their

backyard. And they grow their garden specifically to be able to preserve and have that food last

them throughout the winter. So this episode isn't actually about growing food,

but it's talking about all of the different ways that we can preserve the food that we grow

so we can enjoy our beautiful garden harvests year-round. And don't worry, most of the methods

we talk about today are beginner-friendly, although I'm pretty sure you're going to be as

curious about freeze-d drying as I am after this

conversation. So without further ado, here's Jeremy and Stacey.

Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for plants

successfully, but how to simply and affordably use

our plant babies to cultivate more joy in our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer

turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness,

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