Our pantry used to be a dining room, so it's just a regular room.

Yeah, we don't have space as one of the top reasons that we hear people say they don't preserve any food.

And really, as long as you have a kitchen that you can cook in, you can preserve a lot of different types of food.

And then as long as you've got anywhere, even Stacey always says you can store food under a bed, you can put it in the top of a closet. There's always space to put just a few things for a single person. So, you know, there's... Or put some extra. If you don't, your pantry is not very big, you know, okay? This is what I'm using right now and I'm going to stash the rest of this in whatever extra space you have, your guest

room or whatever.

Whatever. We don't have a guest room.

Welcome to the Beat Podcast. I'm your host today, Jacques Laikov. And today we are talking about

a little bit of preserving, actually a lot of preserving. Preserving your harvest from the garden and not even just from the garden. We'll get into more on that later, but also just how to manage a homestead, how to grow food so you can actually eat it throughout the entire year. And today we have two special guests. We have Jeremy and Stacey Hill. On today, they just wrote a really cool book that I'm really excited to talk about.

It's called The Preserver's Garden.

And this is one of those topics where I feel like a lot of us are interested in growing and preserving our own food, but it just kind of feels overwhelming.

And I'll say this, myself included, by the way, this book really kind of put it at ease because we'll get into these topics, but you guys did a really great job of breaking down, like how to do it, but also how to do it without feeling so overwhelmed. So thank you for coming on. Why don't you let everyone know where you're gardening right now and kind of your journey into the world of gardening, I guess.

Well, thanks for having us. It's exciting to visit with you and your audience.

Do you want to start or I'll start? Go ahead.

We just have to decide who's going to talk. So we are in southern Missouri, and that's zone six-ish.

We're, like, flexible there because it actually gets a lot colder on our homestead.

We have, um, we have about 12 acres and we are, our micro climate is easily a zone colder

than the area around us. It gets, wait, we get 10 to 15 degrees colder overnight in the winter

if there's no clouds and no wind, I mean,

it's like a very specific thing we've figured out, which is lovely, because we look at the

forecast and we're like, okay, it's icy stars. It's going to be 10 degrees colder tonight.

Okay, I see. Yep.

No blanket. Yeah, anyway, we're in a low spot. It's, it makes things a little complicated, but where,

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