Growing and Preserving Flavorful Foods

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Meg is keen to grow her garden specifically for the delicious foods she can cook and preserve. Here, she and Jacques discuss their favorites for their tastiness as it stands, and for preservation purposes. They also cover the best ways to extend their enjoyment of the harvest. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4buMOvp Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3UzAOD0 Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4dbpFj5 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/44ozNkv Learn More:Chaos Gardening: How to Start GardeningConnect With Meagan Lloyd:Meg Lloyd currently grows, preserves, and cooks her own food in a small backyard garden in North Carolina. She started gardening three years ago, and it has given her a new appreciation for food. She has learned so much about how to prepare the fresh garden produce that she harvests. And now, she’s sharing her love for gardening and garden-to-table meals with the world! InstagramTikTokYouTubeBlogShop the StoreAs 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. Get Our BooksLooking 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 ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	We are back with Meg from Meg Groes Plants and today we want to talk about cooking food preservation because I think both of us really got into
0:21.7	gardening at least to some extent because we love to cook and we love to cook with
0:25.2	produce out of our garden. I don't plan my garden very well but I always have a plan of some things
0:31.3	that I want to make sure I'm growing specifically for the use in the kitchen.
0:35.0	So I know that you also love cooking, so do you do a little bit of planning in your garden when it comes to actually having things in the kitchen for cooking?
0:42.9	Yeah, and I think I had a little bit of a different experience.
0:45.9	I think that I did like to cook before I started my garden,
0:50.4	but I, like, it's almost like the garden really just accelerated that and it has taught me a lot how to cook.
0:58.6	Yeah, like I do it so much more cooking now than I ever did because it's almost like yeah the garden is
1:04.2	teaching me how to cook with different things but absolutely yeah I do plan out
1:08.7	to some extent like what I want to cook because now it's more like before when I was growing I would grow all these unique things that I didn't know if I liked or not and now now, over the years, it's more like I'm growing
1:24.6	the things that I love the most to eat
1:26.6	and I know what I like to eat, I know what I like to cook,
1:28.8	I know what I like to preserve now.
1:31.6	So definitely a lot of peppers. I think peppers are like my main crop for me because I just love
1:38.9	peppers in all forms every single way. There's so much better too.
1:43.3	It's crazy.
1:44.2	When you go from the world of like
1:45.6	just jalapenos and bell peppers
1:47.7	so then like the world of what you could grow in your garden,
1:49.8	it's like, it's criminal how many flavors there are out there that people have never
1:54.8	experienced. Yeah and there's like there's thousands of varieties of peppers and I
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