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How to Dry Chamomile Flowers for Tea

This year in the garden has seen us expand into other areas beyond simply preserving vegetables and fruit. We’ve been ...

Garden Update: November 2024

While stuff has stopped growing in the garden for weeks now, we’re still busy wrapping up the tail end of ...

How to Make Rhubarb Wine

When my husband and I started on our journey of urban homesteading, it was pretty basic. He wanted to grow ...

How to Can Rhubarb Juice

Every year we're faced with the same problem with the produce that we freeze—how the heck are we going to ...

Garden Update: October 2024

Things have been a bit quiet around the blog lately. That’s partly due to some employment changes (I took on ...

How to Make Bread and Butter Pickles

I've heard it said that in every relationship, there's one person who loves pickles and one person who hates pickles, ...

Garden Update: September 2024

While it seems this slow start to garden season this year delayed everything, it's yet to be seen if it ...

How to Make Fermented Snap Peas

Snap peas or sugar snap peas are one of those "blink and you'll miss them" kind of produce. While they're ...

How to Can Cherries

I've spoken a fair bit in the past month of the tart Nanking cherries we harvest from a friend's parents' ...