Freezer Meals from Scratch

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Delicious scratch made meals without the pressure of prepping and cleaning up is just what makes freezer meals simply amazing! Becky has mastered the art of preparing freezer meals, and she’s learned having a good variety is the key to being successful with them. Epic Homesteading Book, Signed Copy (Preorder) – Epic Gardening Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46Jz3Xh Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3Q7FbTt Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3tmblBP EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/46m73cq 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	If you are listening to today's show, at the time it comes out, we are sort of in the
0:08.0	end of the season.
0:09.8	It is getting to that point, or maybe it's already past that point in your area, and that
0:13.6	just means it is time to figure out what to do with everything that you harvested, and
0:17.9	every year I've been growing, I just have more and more produce, because the land is
0:21.7	more productive and I just can't help myself from planting more.
0:24.7	So we have Becky Jones from Acre Home, said, back on the show.
0:27.9	I think to me, one of the things that seems to really do well, people seem to love about
0:33.3	your content, are the meals that you'll make for scratch, and oftentimes, like a big list
0:38.0	of meals that are great for the freezer, which I historically have not really done.
0:43.6	I typically just will cook and then just eat, and then it's endless cycle, cooking and
0:48.2	eating.
0:49.2	And so, can we start with just a bit of your overall process, like your philosophy of
0:54.6	cooking from the garden?
0:56.8	Yeah, so I just enjoy kind of pushing my cooking abilities and figuring out what I can cook
1:04.2	from scratch, and instead of buying at the grocery store, does that mean I always cook it
1:09.6	from scratch?
1:10.6	No, but there's something kind of empowering to know that, oh, if I want to cook that
1:13.7	from scratch, I know how to do it.
1:16.0	And that just came from, honestly, when I was younger, and I was bored, I would pull
1:21.5	out some recipe books and start cooking, and then it just kind of spiraled into trying
1:26.0	to figure out, oh, what can I cook from scratch?
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