What is up everyone?

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

We are joined by Melissa Norris and today we're going to be discussing her upcoming book, The Family Garden Plan.

So for those of you who are just tuning in

Melissa is a fifth generation homesteader. She has her own podcast pioneering

today. She's also got YouTube etc. She has an amazing website over at

Melissa K Norris.com.

Now, Melissa, I know that I've got a copy of the book.

I really am excited to dig into it.

I'm actually going to be on a flight in the next couple of days with quite a bit of time so I'm bringing a bunch of books

and I'm gonna nerd out on the flight but I would love to know you do such a good job

at eating and using what you grow and really like really making the

most out of your harvests and so I would love to know how you sort of approach

that as a new season comes upon us?

Yeah, so this is something that I do every single year and I didn't always and that the

reason that I do it is because it would result in I would have

which sounds like such a silly thing to almost sound as a complaint but I would have

an over abundance of a lot of crops and I'm like oh my goodness like there I've had you know 10 jars of this relish sitting on my pantry

shelf for three years obviously we're not eating this and I don't want to be putting time and

effort into crops that were not eating and using because that's just kind of a silly waste of my time and this space and all of that.

So what I do every year and I also do this because for me as a mom my kids is taste

changes they're getting older now we're not serving nearly as many peanut butter

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