Food Preservation Techniques From an Executive Chef

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Food preservation is key if you’re a gardener. Even if you’re planning your garden well, you’ll end up with extra produce - and that’s fantastic...as long as you know how to preserve it. Chris Starkus joins us to share a few of his favorite ways to preserve food. Connect With Chris Starkus: After being a professional chef for 25 years, Chris Starkus pivoted his career and became an eco-entrepreneur, partner and CSO of Boss Defrost. He is also a Journeyman beekeeper, Organic Farmer, committed to 360-degree sustainability and transparency. Boss Defrost (Instagram) Chris Starkus' Instagram | Twitter Lost Creek Microfarm | Instagram |Twitter Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:03.0	What's up everyone?
0:04.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined again by
0:17.3	Chris Starkus. He was a professional chef for 25 plus years including his last stint as the executive
0:24.4	chef of Urban Farmer Denver. He's been on the podcast before you may have heard that
0:28.9	week and if you haven't I really recommend you go check that out. It gives some great context for this week of episodes.
0:35.2	But Chris is now the partner in C.S.
0:38.2	The chief sales officer of Boss,
0:40.4	which we heard about on yesterday's show.
0:42.2	And I thought what we would do today, Chris,
0:44.5	is talk about some food preservation techniques
0:48.0	from someone who has deep experience in a kitchen
0:50.7	as well as experience as an urban urban farmer so it's a really great one-two-punch
0:57.2	We've had people on who are homesteaders home gardeners and I thought it'd be cool to come at it from the angle that you provide.
1:04.4	Absolutely, well thank you. I think, you know, you know, we kind of touched on a little bit as well as, you know, just
1:10.9	planning your garden for the year to come you know I know that
1:13.2	sometimes you feel like you do and you're like I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this and and I
1:17.5	know at least for me I'm thinking about what I'm eating in the season and
1:21.5	freshing for you know freshness carrots things like that and how am I going to cook it and I'm not necessarily thinking about the shoulder season of what am I going to do if it's so prolific, right?
1:32.6	And so that's the part where sometimes it becomes more prolific
1:37.0	than I thought it was going to be,
1:38.4	and now I have all this extra.
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