Preserve the Seasons with Holly Capelle | The Beet

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Episode Description: In this episode of the Beet Podcast, Jacques chats with Holly Capelle – founder of @BigFamilyLiving and food preservation pro – about all the clever ways to make your harvests last. From big batches to small handfuls, Holly shares smart tips, tricks, and old-school techniques with a modern twist to help you stretch your garden goodies all year long. Connect with Holly Capelle: Holly Capelle is a passionate home cook, food preservationist, and sustainable living advocate. She’s the founder of @BigFamilyLiving, an online community for those who love to preserve, cook, create, and garden. With over 30 years of culinary experience, Holly blends traditional preservation methods with modern practicality. She lives just outside Portland, Oregon with her husband Kevin and their six kids on a suburban mini-homestead, where they grow, harvest, and preserve their own food. Find more from Holly on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigfamilyliving/ Find more from Holly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8dTzuDB8tC_jtNUU0BUWhw Support The Beet: → Shop: https://growepic.co/shop → Seeds: https://growepic.co/botanicalinterests Learn More: → All Our Channels: https://growepic.co/youtube → Blog: https://growepic.co/blog → Podcast: https://growepic.co/podcasts → Discord: https://growepic.co/discord → Instagram: https://growepic.co/insta → TikTok: https://growepic.co/tiktok → Pinterest: https://growepic.co/pinterest → Twitter: https://growepic.co/twitter → Facebook: https://growepic.co/facebook → Facebook Group: https://growepic.co/fbgroup → Love our products? Become an Epic affiliate! https://growepic.co/3FjQXqV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.1	With a lot of canning recipes, you need to stick to the recipe.
1:06.0	And these freezer jams and quick jams,
1:08.9	it give you much more liberty to be creative, which I really
1:13.3	love. So I can add herbs to it and turn, you know, my strawberry jam into strawberry basil
1:18.8	jam. I can use an infused sugar, maybe my infused rose sugar and have strawberry rose jam.
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1:29.4	Same thing with pickling, you know,
1:31.4	throwing in some lavender in my pickled carrots.
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