Blanching tomatoes is an easy way to peel your fresh garden tomatoes. Learning to blanch and shock them makes quick work of this process. Using this method will have your …

Water bath canning. This method of canning, especially for beginners, is an easy gateway into preserving your favorite high acid foods in the height of their growing season.

Blackberry jam without pectin, is a quick and simple way to capture summer’s flavor. Requiring only two simple ingredients, this old-fashioned recipe for blackberry jam is practically fullproof to make.

Calling all dill pickle lovers! Canning your own crispy dill pickles is easy, rewarding, and takes full advantage of summers cucumber growing season.

Bread and butter pickles may be our all time favorite recipe for pickles. This old fashioned pickle recipe offers the perfect balance of sweet and sour, and may be the …

Learning to make a homemade fly trap is as easy as gathering a few supplies you’re likely to have laying around the house. DIY fly traps are great for the …

Calendula flower may be the brightest little flowering herb we grow. Don’t let it’s size fool you, however! The many calendula flower uses in both the garden & our recipes …

Yarrow, a delicate flowering herb with many uses and known by many names. This herb, with its magical roots, may very well be the most versatile herb we grow.

There may be no better quick, easy & healthy way to preserve fresh green beans than by lacto fermenting them! These dilly beans are crunchy, spicy, & scrumptious straight from …