Harvesting Your Apples: and Anyone Else’s for that Matter

As September gets into full swing, so does apple season.  This is an exciting time of year as apples become abundant, and harvesting your apples from your own orchard (or someone else’s), brings pies, cobblers, and crisps to your table on a regular basis.  It is a bittersweet time of year as well, because it signals the end of summer and the abundance of all of the crops that you have been able to grow …

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Preserving the Harvest

Now that the plants in your garden are finally producing fruits and vegetables, the sheer numbers can sometimes be overwhelming. An organic gardener generally does not want to see any food go to waste. The easiest answer for this pleasant problem, is preserving the harvest.

There are a number of ways in which large quantities of produce can be put back for the rest of the year. There really is nothing better than having fresh frozen …

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Creative Blueberry Garden Recipes

One very important thing to learn as a gardener is to eat seasonally. This means eating greens and wintered over root vegetables in the early and late spring, peas and beans in the early summer, and finding 317 ways to eat blueberries, tomatoes, and peppers in the mid to late summer. In order to accomplish this goal, it requires that the gardener has a number of creative garden recipes at their disposal.
Five Ways With Blueberries
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Simply Berry Jam Recipes

This is quite possibly the most exciting time of the year for anyone with an appreciation of the harvest.  Mother Nature planned her own crop rotation in such a way as not to burden us too much with her bounty.  As a gardener from the northern part of the U.S., I start itching in anticipation for those first beautiful fruits.  But, then they come so fast and heavy, there is no way to eat the …

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