Saving marigold seeds is one of the easiest ways to collect seeds from your garden. Marigolds were one of the first plants I learned to save seeds from. Once the flowers have finished blooming and the flower heads have dried, you can pull them apart and find dozens of seeds tucked inside. I grow marigolds
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We grow cucumbers in our Zone 5 garden, but if I’m being fair, they aren’t one of our most reliable crops. We usually get some, but not enough at once for a good batch of pickles. For this batch of fermented pickles, I picked up fresh pickling cucumbers from a local farm stand. Fermented pickles
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There are some meals that feel like a full holiday dinner. And then there are meals that bring those same flavors together in one simple bowl. This creamy chicken chowder is smooth and hearty, seasoned like mashed potatoes, and topped with homemade stuffing croutons and a spoonful of cranberry sauce. It is comfort food without
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It seems like fall starts earlier every year. And with fall comes pumpkin spice season. These pumpkin spice cookies are soft, chewy and have just the right amount of sweetness. Throw some vanilla ice cream between two cookies and they make a mean ice cream sandwich as well. This pumpkin cookies recipe is also a
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One of the reasons we grow butternut squash every year is how well it stores. Unlike a lot of vegetables coming out of the garden, you don’t have to figure out what you’re going to do with all of your butternut squash the second you harvest it. If you cure and store it properly, you
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