Grow Spices + How to Store Food

Cooking and Preserving
Written By Steven Biggs

Talking about growing spices with Tasha Greer, author of Grow Your Own Spices.

Grow Your Own Spices

In the first part of the show, we chat with Tasha Greer about how to grow your own spices. She’s the author of the book Grow Your Own Spices.

We chat about:

  • The difference between a herb and a spice

  • Spice-growing ideas for this time of year

  • Seed-grown spices

  • “Underground” spices

  • Spices that might already be in your landscape

  • Spices that a patio gardener can grow in containers and overwinter indoors

 

Feed Yourself for a Year

Homesteader, cold cellar, and food storage expert Steve Maxwell talks about food storage.

In the second part of the show we talk with homesteader, cold-cellar, and food-storage expert Steve Maxwell for ideas about food storage – even if you’re an urban dweller. He’s the creator of the online course Feed Yourself for a Year: Select & Store 365 Days of Food.

He talks about:

  • The reason for having a supply of stored food

  • The advantage of preserving your own food vs. kits

  • Ideas for urban dwellers to store food

  • The importance of stored water

  • Making basement root cellars

  • Making a roothouse

  • Smoking food

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Steven Biggs

Recognized by Garden Making Magazine as one of the "green gang" of Canadians making a difference in horticulture, Steven Biggs is a horticulturist, former college instructor, and award-winning broadcaster and author. His passion is helping home gardeners grow food in creative and attractive ways.


He’s the author of eight gardening books, including the Canadian bestseller No Guff Vegetable Gardening. His articles have appeared in Canada’s Local Gardener, Mother Earth News, Fine Gardening, Garden Making, Country Guide, Edible Toronto, and other magazines.


Along with over 30 years working in the horticultural sector and a horticultural-science major at the University of Guelph, Steven’s experience includes hands-on projects in his own garden including wicking beds, driveway strawbale gardens, and a rooftop tomato plantation—to the ongoing amusement of neighbours.


When not in the garden, you might catch him recording his award-winning Food Garden Life podcast or canoeing in Algonquin Park.

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