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Fresh pasta is easy to make from scratch with just a few basic ingredients. Feed your craving for comfort foods by making homemade pasta from scratch with this simple recipe and tutorial.

How to Make Fresh Pasta from Scratch

Crop rotation is a great way to maintain healthy soil and reduce pests and diseases in the organic vegetable garden. Discover the benefits of crop rotation and how to apply it to your backyard vegetable garden.

Benefits of Crop Rotation for Your Vegetable Garden

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Canning Potatoes: How to Pressure Can Potatoes for Food Storage

How to Build Healthy Garden Soil

7 Simple Techniques to Improve Garden Soil

close up of basil plants in a pot

How to Grow Basil

6 Ways to Protect Plants from Frost

6 Ways to Protect Plants from Frost

recycled bakery container growing microgreens

How to Grow Microgreens Indoors

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French-Canadian Salmon Pie

Drying apples is a great way to preserve the fresh fall harvest. Here are three ways to dehydrate apples for winter food storage, including air-drying, oven drying, and using a food dehydrator.

3 Ways to Dehydrate Apples for Food Storage

No sunshine required to make these homemade sun dried tomatoes. Drying tomatoes is a great way to preserve the harvest and save storage space. 20 pounds of tomatoes will reduce down to about one pound of sun dried tomatoes.

Homemade Sun Dried Tomatoes

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Good Old-Fashioned Pickled Dilly Beans

Got peppers? Drying is an excellent way to preserve peppers. Dehydrating removes the moisture and concentrates the flavor and heat of the peppers.

3 Ways to Dry Peppers for Food Storage