Styles of Preservation

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Preservation is a great way to reduce waste in the garden. In this episode, Jacques and Kris discuss all their favorite (and not so favorite) ways to preserve the food they grow in their gardens. From freezing, to drying, these two have some pretty awesome secrets to share. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3W17SVH Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3xQO3pQ Book Collection Page:https://growepic.co/4aH4iEu EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4aJq7U4 Learn More: 15 Fruit Trees to Plant this SpringConnect With Jacques and Kris:Kris Moriarty and Jacques Lyakov are great gardeners, and some of the first Epic Gardening team members. As the resident Garden Hermit and the Director of Customer Experience at Epic, both have the skills to grow a lush and vibrant garden full of food for themselves and their families. They teach other people to grow too. Kris even does this in her side consulting business, called Grow A Lil Garden, where she helps people build their own gardens. With a practical understanding of gardening, as well as a knack for flavor, Jacques and Kris are taking over the pod this week to share their knowledge and skills with The Beet Podcast listeners. Kris’ Website Kris’ Instagram Jacques’ YouTube Jacques’ Instagram Jacques’ Website Shop 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: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are back today with Chris and we are talking about unique and maybe differing
0:18.2	styles of preservation. You were just telling me earlier that you actually hate one in particular style of preserving food
0:24.7	I hate canning so much it's so tedious and it always happens in summer right because you got
0:31.5	you have all the stuff so it's a thousand degrees here and then you're
0:33.9	standing over boiling water. I bought all the stuff for canning. Oh okay.
0:37.1	And I just donated it all last year. I'm like I'm never doing this again.
0:40.7	I don't care. I tried. Actually I forgot I have canned once and it was with Kevin he got like a
0:46.1	electric canner thing I would need a zesty salsa recipe and I was like oh you know that was like some work, but it wasn't as much as I thought,
0:55.0	but I could definitely see it being overwhelming when you were trying to do a bunch.
0:58.0	Because like we did a lot of work to get like two jars of salsa.
1:02.0	And you have to be so careful.
1:03.0	Yeah, that's the scary thing.
1:03.7	I mean, that's the thing, like it goes to rye.
1:05.4	Hey, there's no gray area.
1:07.2	No.
1:08.2	No. No.
1:09.2	So what do you do instead then?
1:10.2	So kind of my favorite things that I like to do. I'm a huge fan of freezing.
1:14.6	So I think freezing is the easiest thing. I think we both bought a chess freezer, right?
1:19.6	I got when I like Costco. I was like, this is my time. I see it.
1:22.0	Yeah, totally. I'm getting it. So I'll do, you know, especially we both
1:26.6	grow so many tomatoes. Yeah. So I'll do salsa bases. I'll do tomato sauce bases and then I'll freeze them. Oh interesting so what do you mean by like a
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