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The fun part of growing your own organic fruit, vegetables, and herbs is learning how to cook and preserve them. We love sharing our healthy recipes with you that feature home-grown goodness. These garden-to-table recipes use plants as the star attraction rather than an afterthought. And while we do have some meat-based recipes, most of our recipes follow "nutritarian" principles that focus on plants as the main course.

Canning and preserving the harvest are also vital skills when you grow your own edibles. We include these recipes so that, with the help of a good guide or resource such as the National Center for Home Food Preservation, you can learn how to can your own food, too.

Summer squash

What Can You Make with Summer Squash?

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Easy Oatmeal Muffin Recipe

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Swedish Tea Bread

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Easy Traditional Chicken Pot Pie Recipe (No Salt Added!)

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How to Cook and Use Fresh Pumpkin

fig salad recipe with fresh cantaloupe, figs, and basil

Fig Salad Recipe: Figs and Cantaloupe with Basil Dressing

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What to Do with Fresh Figs?

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Four Ingredient Potato Leek Soup – Dairy Free and No Cream!

beans

Confetti Salad – Black Bean Salad

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Vegan Cauliflower Recipe: Sicilian Sauce

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Marinaded and Grilled Portobello Mushroom Steaks

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Best Popover Recipe

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Vegan Creamy Cauliflower Soup

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Made From Scratch Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe

slices of water bread

Old Fashioned White Bread Recipe – Easy Bread Making

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Summer squash

What Can You Make with Summer Squash?

It’s that time of year when everyon asks, “What can I make with summer squash?”. The time when neighbors sneak bags of summer squash onto porches. When farmer’s markets are brimming with yellow and green squash, zucchini, and all manner of Cucurbitaceae, the plant family that gives, and gives, until it can’t give anymore. If…

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A closeup of marshmallow plant flower.

Growing Marshmallow Plant

Growing marshmallow plant has been on my gardening to-do list for quite some time. I’ve read about it in herbal books and grown its cousins in the Malvaceae family from seed. The dark purple mallow plant I have thrives in my little garden by the shed, so I thought, “Why not grow marshmallow there?” I…

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watering can with plants

August in the Garden: Late Summer Delight

August in the Garden: Tasks, Tips, and a Look Ahead to Fall Here in South Central Virginia, August has always felt like “back to school” season. By mid-month, the local schools are back in session, and with two universities in our small town, the stores fill up with dorm supplies and school gear. What a…

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a close up of tulsi, also called holy basil, in bloom

How to Grow Tulsi from Seed

Holy basil, also called tulsi, can be grown from seeds. That, at least, is what everyone told me. I’d read about tulsi (holy basil) in several books about herbal medicine and seen it cited as a good adaptogenic herb. I was excited to grow it, so I ordered seeds. Several years in a row. Each…

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