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Super Easy Food Preserving http://www.creativevegetablegardener.com/ () I’m super excited this morning because today’s featured guest is the https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/podcast-2/top-5-episodess/ (most downloaded guest) of all time. Here to share with us more of her amazing knowledge from the http://www.creativevegetablegardener.com/ (Creative Vegetable Gardener)http://www.creativevegetablegardener.com/ ( )is http://www.creativevegetablegardener.com/ (Megan Cain)! http://www.creativevegetablegardener.com/ () Welcome back Megan! I spoke with Megan in https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/44-megan-cain-creative-vegetable-gardener-website-madison-wi/ (episode 44) & then again on https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/70-megan-cain-returns-make-your-garden-harvest-last-all-year-7-day-challenge-fall-planting/ (episode  70 )(https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/70-megan-cain-returns-make-your-garden-harvest-last-all-year-7-day-challenge-fall-planting/ (Make Your Garden Harvest Last All Year Long), https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/smart-start-garden-planner-2017-megan-cain/ (episode 115), and in Feb we did a bonus episode about her https://organicgardenerpodcast.com/smart-start-garden-planner-2017-megan-cain/ (Smart Start Planning Guide) in Feb!) Mini-Farm Preserving I reached out to her because Mike has been so busy down with the mini farm! He has already canned: 51 pints of beans 12 pints of pickled beets 9 pints of carrots 14 1/2 pints of Oregon grape jelly and when he was making the grape jelly he was going thru http://amzn.to/2ww7KBc (Megan’s book) and kept coming up to me saying did you see this? Did you know this? Haven’t you been asking me about this? And so I asked Megan if she wanted to come back and talk with us again about her amazing bookhttp://amzn.to/2ww7KBc ( Super Easy Food Preserving Quick Techniques for Fresh, Fridge and Freezer Storage. )Some of my favorite features in the book is she has a great worksheet right off the bat where you start strategically thinking about your garden needs. I always love worksheets and checklists! And it’s full of questions I wouldn’t think of necessarily like “What foods do I want to eat out of season? What tastes better when I eat them during the local growing season?” Sounds like Mike’s been busy! 2017 Garden Challenges Yes, but we’ve been having so many challenges this year! Deer  Squirrels Hail Fires Voles Mice Bugs and insects Drought – no rain since June Predators – Skunks or something got the duck and one of our cats I do a lot of food preserving. I lived on a farm and we did a lot of preserving. And mostly we did canning. We moved to Wisconsin. Then we moved here I had a garden, I thought that’s how I preserve food, I did a lot of canning, but I didn’t really like it!  There’s got to be some easier ways to preserve food then canning I did research and so I talked to people and started to piece together quicker and easier ways to preserve food then canning!  I started to tell friends and neighbors I saw that was a common belief. When people think about canning! That’s what http://amzn.to/2ww7KBc (my book explores.) If you like canning you should continue to do it! But for people who don’t have time for canning need equipment easier ways don’t need special equipment! We do have one or two days to can salsa because I haven’t found a good substitute. We do a little bit of canning, it’s hard to fit it in and we kind of dread it but we do it because we love having salsa fresh fridge freezer Fresh storage So the first thing I ask is “Can I store the vegetable fresh?” And garlic! I dry it in my garage. Once it’s dry I put it in boxes in my basement. Then we eat our own garlic all year round!  I don’t have to can it or freeze it or antyhing! I just dry it stick it in my basement... Support this podcast