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

Homemade Crabapple Jelly with No Added Pectin

over head photo of home canned beans and carrots

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

Meet the New Chicks in the Flock | Grow a Good Life

Adding to Our Flock of Backyard Chickens

young pepper and tomato seedlings on a table outside in the shade

How to Harden Off Seedlings

close up of a NZ spinach plant in the garden

Growing New Zealand Spinach