Why Save Seeds Saving seeds is a super economical way to propagate next season’s garden and allow you to save your seed money for fun new varieties rather than re-buying the same exact seeds each year. Collecting your own seed also allows you to begin adapting a particular cultivar to your exact environmental and soil conditions. […]
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Salsa verde is my absolute favorite, so in our endeavor to become more self-reliant for our food, I knew we’d need to find a way to can lots of tomatillo salsa. While the plants we grew our first year produced some fruit, they were bug ridden, small, and never produced a large enough crop to
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The dill is flowering and the cucumbers are stacking up–must mean it’s pickling season! We found ourselves with a few free hours and all the ingredients on hand to kick off this year’s canning marathon. Dill flowers add a touch of beauty to canned goods pantry. The following recipe is based off the Ball Book
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