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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' ...

How to Can Tart Cherry Juice

I've spoken a few times on this site so far about the friend's parents' place that has a cherry tree ...

How to Can Apple Juice

Fruit trees are something we’ve always been interested in, but there’s just no room for them on our property. Thankfully, ...

Garden Update: August 2024

What a difference one month makes! In the last monthly update, I wrote about how this year is not a ...

Making Use of Scraps

Gardening, especially on a large scale, means creating a lot of organic waste. While there are some plants where the ...

How to Make Fermented Garlic Scape Hot Sauce

The garlic scapes are up and this year we got quite the haul, coming in at around 1.5 kg, or ...

How to Pickle Garlic Scapes

One of the things I love about growing garlic is that you get two different harvests from them—the garlic, of ...

Garden Update: July 2024

Every year, my husband says something like "this is not a good year for the garden". It's either too hot ...