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Eating Like You Live on a Small Farm

Eating Like You Live on a Small Farm

Imagine waking up to the rooster’s crow (or your smartphone alarm with a rooster ringtone) and heading to the backyard to gather eggs from happy hens, pick dew-kissed tomatoes, or  …
Mexican Lasagna

Mexican Lasagna

Mexican lasagna - it’s the dish that proves fusion cuisine isn’t just a fancy restaurant trend, it’s pure comfort food genius happening right in your own kitchen. As someone who  …
Fresh Fruit Maple Ambrosia Salad

Fresh Fruit Maple Ambrosia Salad

As a kid, I lapped up bowls of fruit ambrosia at our family gatherings. You know the stuff - canned mixed fruit with fluorescent cherries, in a fluffy batter of  …
How to Choose and Use a Vacuum Sealer

How to Choose and Use a Vacuum Sealer

As any enthusiastic gardener or home cook will tell you, there’s no greater heartbreak than seeing your lovingly grown vegetables or favorite snacks go bad before their time. Enter the  …
27 Vegetable Storage Secrets

27 Vegetable Storage Secrets

When you’ve spent months nurturing your garden, the last thing you want is for your precious vegetables to wilt, rot, or otherwise go to waste. As a food gardening enthusiast,  …
The Quest for Corn

The Quest for Corn

The best sweet corn I ever grew was in my very first or second real garden (I don't remember if I grew sweet corn that first year, but definitely at  …
13 Deadly Vegetable Garden Pests

13 Deadly Vegetable Garden Pests

I’m just going to say it: There is a lot that can go wrong with a garden. Somehow, we humans have cultivated vegetables for about 10,000 years. But a few  …