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Hey, you guys, this is Josh and Carolyn with Hopestating family and welcome

this week's episode of the pantry chat food for thought. This week we're going to be demystifying

seed saving making it a little bit easier for those of you guys who want to get started, seed saving.

So essentially how to start saving seeds without a degree.

It's a scary subject sometimes, but it doesn't need to be.

It's one of those things. There's like so much information out there that it almost is a little bit overwhelming.

But there are some things that are really, really straightforward about seed saving and some

plants that are really easy to save.

So we're going to be jumping in to how to start seed saving in a really non-scary way.

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