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The Calm Before the Harvest: A Garden Update for August 2025

Mid August feels like the calm before the storm when it comes to gardening and food preserving. Some of the ...

How to Can Apple Juice (Updated Recipe)

Apples are often considered a fall treat, but for us, they're right in the middle of summer. We don't have ...

How to Pressure Can Peas

I'm often asked why I choose to can certain foods when they could just as easily be frozen. My answer ...

How to Make Gnocchi

Potatoes are one of those harvests that are both incredibly easy to preserve, but also strangely difficult. If all you ...

Berry Bonanza: A July 2025 Garden Update

The weather this spring and early summer was a bit weird. It got super hot in the daytime (far too ...

How to Make Corn Cob Wine

We rarely buy wine anymore. It started innocently enough — my first batch of garden wine (or country wine, as ...

5 Easy Crops for the Beginner Gardener

We recently had some people over and they saw our garden for the first time. Their question — and everyone ...

5 Ways to Preserve Tart Cherries

With summer in full force here, cherry season isn't far behind. We don't have a cherry tree on our property ...

What To Do With Too Many Saskatoons

It's almost saskatoon season here in this part of Canada and it can be a bit of a game of ...