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Garden-to-Table Herb Recipes: Homemade Infused Oils and Vinegars

Elevate Your Plate with Herbal Infusions If you’re new to adding herbs to your meals, or just looking for some inspiration to use up a huge harvest from your kitchen garden, an easy and quick way to get your garden-grown...

How to Use Garden Herbs: Homemade Tea Blends

Have you ever found yourself wondering how you’re possibly going to use up all the herbs in your garden? It’s a good problem to have, but you can only make so much pesto! Introducing tea blends. Homemade tea blends are...

Late Season Harvests & Laying Your Garden to Rest

Don’t throw in the trowel quite yet (Get it? Trowel instead of towel? Gardening jokes.). Anyway, while we all dread the first frost because it means the end of most of our garden, I’m here to remind you there are...

5 Tips for Adding Perennial Fruit Crops to Your Garden

There’s no two ways about it: adding perennial fruit crops to your garden is a commitment. If you’ve never grown fruit before you might be less confident, and fruiting plants require long-term planning and care. And yet, I find it...

Eating Root-to-Stem: Maximizing Your Harvest by Using the Whole Vegetable

I know I’m guilty of having wasted some of my harvests simply because I was not sure what to do with it, or I because I didn’t realize there was more to enjoy. Turns out, there’s a name for it:...

Planning for Fall: 7 Tips to Elongate Your Growing Season

Do I dare say it? …Yes, fall is coming! And it’ll creep up on us sooner than we think, so now is the perfect time to take a moment to plan for fall harvest so we can utilize all the...

Five Tips to Maximize Your Garden Harvests: Preserving as You Grow

We’re finally in the part of summer where we can start seeing some returns on the hard work we’ve put into our gardens! All my summer favorites are starting to come in, and fast! The key to not falling behind...

Organic Pest Control: Tips for discovering and eradicating pests

Nothing is more devastating than when you’re ready to start your day off on the right foot, out enjoying nature in your garden, and then you see the destruction caused by garden pests or disease. Sure, it’s a part of...

Wellness by Design: a Podcast Recap

I recently had the pleasure of talking about gardening as a path to healthier living with Jane Hogan, The Wellness Engineer, on her podcast Wellness by Design. Jane believes we all have the power to achieve optimal wellness by intentionally...