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Everyday Homesteading

The #1 Mistake When Preserving Herbs (And How to Avoid It)

Everyday Homesteading

Homesteading Family

Home Management, Leisure, Home & Garden, Arts, Self-sufficiency, Organic Gardening, Education, From-scratch Cooking, Homestead Pantry, Sustainable Living, Food, Modern Homesteading, Simple Living, Herbal Remedies, Homesteading Podcast, Food Preservation, Raising Livestock, How To

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Want to preserve the fresh flavors of summer herbs to use all year long? In this video, I’m showing you how to make herbal oils and herbal vinegars, a simple, beginner-friendly way to infuse all that goodness into your pantry staples. We’ll talk about how to safely make flavored oils (yes, there are safety concerns!), and how herbal vinegars are a perfect, safe project for kids and beginners. These make amazing salad dressings, cooking ingredients, and even homemade gifts! 🌿 In this video:...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Carolyn from homesteading family. And before we jump into today's podcast,

0:05.9

I wanted to invite you to a free four-part video series that I have that teaches you how to can.

0:15.1

We go over the safety of canning, we go over the supplies and the equipment that you'll need, and then we actually

0:22.5

get into the kitchen together and I show you every single step of the canning process so that

0:29.3

you can follow along. There's free downloads, there's all the resources that you need to be

0:35.6

able to complete the canning project all by yourself.

0:38.3

So if you've ever wanted to learn how to can or you just want to brush up on your canning safety,

0:44.0

go to homesteadingfamily.com forward slash podcast dash canning.

0:51.4

Again, that's homesettingfamily.com forward slash podcast dash canning.

0:58.0

You pour that right over your herbs and you let those herbs sit and those herbs just give off

1:04.1

all of their good flavors right on into that vinegar. And it makes for an incredibly safe, an incredibly delicious way to get

1:14.7

that fresh herb flavor into your winter salads.

1:23.8

Hey, you guys, welcome to this week's edition of the pantry chat, food for thought.

1:30.1

This week, I'm all by myself.

1:33.7

It's one of those weeks where everybody's busy.

1:36.8

There's a lot going on because it is harvest season.

1:41.4

But, you know, one of the questions that harvest season brings up is how do we

1:46.3

preserve every single one of these different foods that we're bringing in from the garden or from

1:53.6

the farmer's market? And how do we keep them throughout winter? Not only that, but how do we do it

2:00.2

safely? You know, you've worked really hard

2:02.6

to grow all these foods or maybe to source really good quality foods. And then you start

2:08.1

thinking about wintertime and preserving some of these foods. The last thing you want is to worry about

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