Harvesting & Preserving
Food is a love language. Cooking, baking, being in the kitchen with loved ones, sharing traditions with children. It’s all centered around food, family and love. Maybe you’re like me and decided to stop buying everyone gifts and instead decided to start making them things they’ll actually consume. Maybe you’re looking for inspiration – of
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If you have more fresh basil than you know what to do with, making homemade basil salt is one of the easiest ways to preserve some of that fresh basil flavour. We grow a lot of basil every year. If you want to do the same, our complete guide to growing basil from seed walks
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Your rosemary plant is growing abundantly! Whether you’re taking a small mid-season harvest or bringing in the entire plant before the end of the growing season, drying rosemary is one of the easiest ways to preserve it. Personally, I dry all of our rosemary in the dehydrator. It’s simple, effective and has consistently worked well
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Rosemary is a beautiful herb. I love adding it on top of my two ingredient sourdough crackers, using it with garlic butter on top of my steak, or as a spice in potatoes, soups, herbal remedies and more. But rosemary is a bit more fickle than most other herbs, it prefers warmer climates and will
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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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