If you’re reading this article, I imagine you have an abundance of herbs on your hands and are looking for a way to minimize food waste. Drying herbs in a dehydrator is such a simple and quick way to fill up your spice cabinet with flavorful, homegrown herbs that not only flavor your favorite dishes, […]
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A few years ago we made a quick video for Youtube showing how we preserve minced garlic safely using a science-approved preservation method that banishes food poisoning and botulism concerns, but we never got around adding this safe minced garlic recipe to the blog! It’s high time to share this simple and safe food preservation
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Wondering how to preserve onions now that the harvest is coming in? Some crops like onions are all ready at once and can feel overwhelming to process everything at once. Thankfully there are three simple methods for preserving onions no matter whether you grow long-day or short-day onions. Cure and Cellar This is by far
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There seems to be a myth or mentality out there that if you don’t grow the vegetable or fruit yourself, then you can’t preserve it. Guess what? You don’t have to grow all the food you preserve. Food preservation with farm seconds is one of the most affordable ways to fill up your pantry and
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I’m sure you’ve noticed prices inching up at the grocery store and have been experiencing shortages of random items on the shelves. It’s definitely been apparent on our recent trips to stock up the pantry! In a recent article in our local newspaper,* an article mentioned that wholesale shortening and cooking oil prices have increased
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Welcome autumn and hello crocktober! It’s the season of simmering soups, roasts, and more in your slow cooker or on the stovetop. While we’ve shared some of my favorite soup recipes here before, we haven’t shared how to make easy homemade pumpkin puree from your own homegrown pumpkins (or leftover ones from all your fall
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After painstakingly picking popcorn kernels off the cob by hand our first year growing our rainbow popcorn blend, we decided we needed to find an affordable small-scale corn sheller to make the job easier. We had been keeping an eye on Craigslist and FB Marketplace for an antique corn sheller, when we learned that my
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Yogurt has always been one of those foods that I knew was good for me, but one I was never able to palette. No matter how many times I tried to acquire a taste for store-bought yogurt, I could never stop from gagging at the chalky flavor. So gross! Shortly after I married Farmer Nathan,
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Farmer Nathan and I both grew up in the low-fat generation complete with skim milk and fat-free labels on so many packages at the grocery store. Fat was the health enemy to be avoided. So naturally, neither of us grew up cooking with some of the traditional fats (lard, tallow, shmaltz etc.). Other than the
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Like we mentioned at the end of 2020, we want to keep better records of what we grow, raise, and eat so that we can more accurately know what we need to get us through until the next harvest. We more or less accomplished month 1 of 12 of this new habit. Therefore, it’s time
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