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slice of tourtiere meat pie on a white plate

Tourtière: A French-Canadian Meat Pie Recipe

jars of home canned tomato sauce on a table

Seasoned Tomato Sauce Recipe for Home Canning

Taking the effort to clean up the vegetable garden beds in fall makes it very easy to begin growing the following spring. Tips to do before the snow flies.

7 Tips to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Winter

What do you do after you have preserved all the harvest that you can and the garden is still producing? Even when you take the time to try to estimate how many plants to grow for fresh produce and enough to preserve, often times there is a bumper crop of one thing or another. Here are some ways to share the harvest bounty instead of tossing the extras into the compost bin.

4 Ways to Share the Garden Harvest Bounty

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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

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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