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How to Make Preserves as Gifts

How to Make Preserves as Gifts

If you're just learning how to make preserves, you're in for an exciting journey. There's not much better than knowing all your freshly-picked fruits and berries won't go to waste  
10+ Food Gardening Gadgets We Love

10+ Food Gardening Gadgets We Love

Gardening is only work if you make it! Maybe it's because I'm an elder-millennial, but I am totally fine with scoping out the latest gardening gadgets. Sure, I've wasted plenty  
Rainbow Popsicles

Rainbow Popsicles

If you really want to know what it means to "taste the rainbow," try making these rainbow popsicles! You can layer the colors any way you like, but I tried to  
Strawberry Cordial

Strawberry Cordial

Strawberries are one of the most luscious fruits of summer. They’re sweet and juicy, with a delicate red flesh that is perfectly suited for eating raw. Strawberries also make excellent  
The Healing Gardens of Mrs. Dorsey

The Healing Gardens of Mrs. Dorsey

Today’s My Mother’s Garden story is rich with so many emotional ups and downs that it’s hard to decide if it has a happy ending or not. But what I  
Bounty

Bounty

A hot, wet Spring yielded small, intensely sweet strawberries. We ate gallons of them—in homemade ice cream or over fresh warm shortcake, sure, but mostly right out of the bowl,  
How to Farm With Children

How to Farm With Children

Pregnancy—Keep working outside every day. When feeling nauseated in the Spring, slowly pick and munch on raw kale buds while working and hope it’s nutrition your body needs. When it  
Sharing with Sheldon

Sharing with Sheldon

I will never forget the day that I came home from work to find my husband Kim puttering around with a new glass terrarium. A terrarium? Kim? What was going