Simplify food preservation, wherever you are starting from! 

I really appreciate this video, because it emphasizes a point I've only recently and rarely heard from others: start where you are. I want a homestead, I want to be more self-sufficient, etc, but where I live the housing market is not realistic and attainable, so I have to rent. I can't garden, I can't keep chickens, etc. But recently I realized that the homesteading skills I *can* begin with are to preserve food and make healthy, whole food meals. These skills will roll into the larger dream eventually, I'll already be prepared. I make sourdough every few days, I'm starting ferments, I'm making food from scratch more and more, and I plan to use local farms to source bulk produce to preserve even more when the time comes. What I hadn't thought of doing was to forage greens and dehydrate them. I don't have a lot of nettle near me right now, but nipplewort is usually pretty easy to find, so I plan to work on that for the time being. Lastly, thank you again for reminding us one thing at a time. This year it might be only making sauce, next year adding in dehydrated greens, etc. Also thank you for reminding us that u-picks are a great resource for those of us that can't garden our own right now.

Food preservation can definitely be overwhelming so I always enjoy comparing how everyone does it to find what works best for me. Thank you for the tips! God bless you and your family.

I've learned to can and dehydrate the last couple years and I love it! Great advice Joelle. Ty. 😊

im more of a prepper now (stacking rice, beans, mylar bags, buckets, 02 absorbers) but slowly, im trying to become homesteader, im looking for land now for my family, you guyses videos are amazing. thanks a ton, you are really inspriring. :)

Thanks for the pep talk, such great advice. I really appreciate it 😊

Great advice! Thank you for being so encouraging 🙏🙂

Some really great tips!

Love your advise.

Peach pie is my favorite!

By buying local you will learn when fruits and vegetables are in season so when you start growing yourself you will know what is going to be ready

great video! I really agree with your perspective. preserving food is better to be in a way you actually like to eat it, otherwise it is such a waste of food. I frees fruits in its peak season (when they cheaper) and use them for smoothies all year round. I also forage and dry verbena leaves for my tea (it is stored great and much cheaper from the verbena teabags from stores) and also the same for Origanum syriacum which is delicious spice. The guest appearance is charming :)

How do you avoid spraying peaches??? I would love to avoid spraying, but the Japanese Beetles desecrate the entire crop and we haven't had peaches in 8 years

Can you share where you sourced your peaches?

Do you have a dehydrator?