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Do you want to grow your own food, but worry that you don't have time to tend to a garden? These tips will help you plan a low-maintenance vegetable garden that will reward you with fresh food throughout the garden season.

7 Tips for a Low-Maintenance Vegetable Garden

Potatoes, bacon, and cheddar cheese are a delicious combination! Enjoy these potato skins as an appetizer, snack, or side dish.

Cheddar Bacon Potato Skins

With a few simple ingredients and time, you can make a delicious, slow cooked New England baked beans dinner. Skip the can and simmer your own homemade baked beans in your crock pot or slow cooker.

Slow Cooker New England Baked Beans

Growing potatoes using trench and hill method involves digging trenches, planting seed potatoes, and hilling the potato plants as they grow. This is the traditional method of growing potatoes that farmers have used for centuries only scaled down for the backyard garden.

How to Grow Potatoes: Trench and Hill Method

Something extraordinary occurs when vegetables are roasted. The high heat crisps up the outside of the vegetables and locks in their natural flavor. Then that flavor transforms, sweetens and intensifies as it roasts. This one-pan, roasted rosemary chicken and vegetables recipe is an easy to prep meal bursting with flavor.

Roasted Rosemary Chicken and Vegetables

These sizzling beef steak fajitas are made with strips of steak infused with a flavorful chili-lime marinade, combined with colorful peppers, onions, and folded into a warm tortilla.

Chili-Lime Beef Steak Fajitas

Have you tried growing potatoes in your garden? Growing potatoes is fun and not that difficult! You can grow unique varieties not found in supermarkets.

8 Great Tips for Growing Potatoes

Here is some of the best content from Grow a Good Life over this past year. These are the top 10 gardening and simple living posts that you have viewed, pinned, and shared during 2016.

Grow a Good Life’s Top 10 Posts of 2016

plate of molasses cookies on a table

Rena’s Soft Molasses Cookies

Freshly baked toasted almond anise biscotti on a plate.

Toasted Almond Anise Biscotti Recipe

a plate of Italian Anise Cookies on a table

Auntie’s Italian Anise Cookies

jars of home canned turkey stock on a table

Turkey Stock Recipe Plus Canning Instructions