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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' ...

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 ...