Floral arrangement always seemed like an unattainable art that us mere mortals would have to pay the big bucks to enjoy. Turns out there is a secret to creating quick and easy flower bouquets that even novices can create! Floret Flowers Farm shares mini-series each season and one year she shared her “recipe” for easy […]
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Wanting to build a better composting system on a budget? The good news is a 3-bay pallet compost system is easy to build on a shoestring even with minimal building experience. This simple building project will level up your composting game without spending money on an expensive tumbler. Plus it has the bonus advantage of
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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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A few years into trying to freeze enough green beans and can enough tomato sauce to last all winter, I had the realization…if I could just shift the base ingredients of all our recipes to homegrown our diet would be 30-50% closer to self-sufficient. What were those base ingredients? Onions, garlic, and carrots…all three things
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I have always wanted an English cottage vegetable garden. I love symmetry, order, picket fences, and walking paths. While I’m not sure where the love came from, I know the gardens at historic sites always stayed with me. The mix of flowers, vegetables, and herbs–culinary and medicinal–made the garden such a lovely place to linger
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Farmer Nathan and I love browsing seed catalogs in the winter, dreaming of our summer garden, and possibly getting carried away with our seed orders. (We can’t be the only ones! 😉 ) We’re always excited to try new varieties, colors, and flavors…but some cultivars aren’t happy to meet us and our good and steamy
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It’s that time of year again. Fall is in the air..well just a hint of it down here in the South. But all things pumpkin and apple are being celebrated, which means it’s squash season too. The past two years we began growing some of our own winter squash and pumpkins for eating and eco-friendly
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During the seed shortages of the 2020 pandemic, we began learning how to save as many seeds as we could. But even though we learned how to save cucumber seeds, we weren’t able to do so because we had all hybrid varieties. Womp womp. Lesson learned. We knew we needed to find an open-pollinated or
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Are weeds just weeds? Weeds in the garden can seem like a never-ending task to deal with. Pulling. Hoeing. Cutting. Ploughing. Chopping. It gets exhausting! Having spent many an hour out in the field pulling those countless weeds, I feel your pain. After a few years of weeding, there are patterns that I began to
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