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jars of home canned green beans cooling on the counter

Canning Green Beans for Food Storage

This easy, crockpot tomato sauce made with fresh tomatoes is rich and flavorful. It takes little effort to fill the slow cooker up with all the ingredients and let it simmer all day.

Crockpot Tomato Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes

two jars of home canned crab apple jelly on a wooden table

Homemade Crabapple Jelly with No Added Pectin

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6 Tips to Prepare for Canning Season

This garden fresh salsa recipe takes advantage of seasonal ingredients. It is so easy to make, just toss the ingredients into a food processor or blender, pulse it to the consistency you like, and enjoy.

Garden Fresh Salsa

Asian greens ready to transplant to the garden.

Succession Planting Tips to Maximize Your Harvest

Pepper plants in a square foot garden mulched with straw.

5 Ways Organic Mulch Helps Your Vegetable Garden

The mild onion flavor of chive blossom vinegar is combined with honey, Dijon mustard, and fresh chopped chives. Toss this flavorful vinaigrette salad dressing with baby greens.

Mason Jar Chive Vinaigrette Recipe

Make your own chive blossom vinegar. See how easy it is to infuse vinegar with a subtle onion essence and a purple blush of color.

Chive Blossom Vinegar Infusion

Raspberry leaf tea is delicious and resembles a light, green tea without the caffeine. See how to collect and dry red raspberry leaves for tea.

How to Harvest & Preserve Red Raspberry Leaf Tea

Freshly harvested onions on a garden bench.

Harvesting, Curing, and Storing Onions

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Adding to Our Flock of Backyard Chickens