When you’re flipping through the seed catalogs, your eye might instantly jump to the images of the boisterous, hefty Beefsteak tomatoes. You know – the tomatoes whose images alone seem to take up half the page! But the real star of the show is the cherry tomato. Tiny and unassuming, this little fruit is the…
If you’re thinking about raising backyard hens for eggs, you might feel a little bit intimidated by the process. Is this a hard process, or an easy process? How do you get started? And so on. Luckily, chickens are some of the easiest animals you can raise – but it’s important to learn how to…
Were you lucky enough to experience a bountiful carrot harvest this season? If so, you might feel overwhelmed with all the orange in your kitchen. Luckily, carrots don’t have to be eaten or preserved right away – they will keep for quite some time without you having to do anything at all. But if you…
There’s nothing better than garden-fresh basil. Unfortunately, basil is not a perennial in most areas of the world, so if you’re relying on a summer bounty to get you through a winter’s worth of sauces, soups, and stir-fries, you are going to have to come up with some creative ways of preserving basil. If your…
Is there anything better than a nice, ripe banana? I don’t think so! But if you live where I live – in one of the colder areas of the world to say the least, and one where bananas definitely do not grow in the wild – you need to get creative when it comes to…
Whether you have apple trees growing right on your own property or you just scored a killer deal on a bushel at your favorite farmstand, knowing how to preserve apples is an essential skill. An apple a day keeps the doctor away – but for most people, apples are hard to come by during the…
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