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Easy Recipes

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?

oatmeal muffins in the tin, just out of the oven

Easy Oatmeal Muffin Recipe

two loaves of bread in the oven

Swedish Tea Bread

chicken pot pie cooling on the kitchen table

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

A group of pumpkins and gourds on straw.

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

a basket of fresh figs

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

a pot cooking on the stove

Vegan Cauliflower Recipe: Sicilian Sauce

a pot cooking on the stove

Marinaded and Grilled Portobello Mushroom Steaks

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Best Popover Recipe

a spoonful of soup

Vegan Creamy Cauliflower Soup

pots simmering on the stove

Made From Scratch Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe

slices of water bread

Old Fashioned White Bread Recipe – Easy Bread Making

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How to Grow Coleus from Cuttings

I have a confession: I never expected this to work as well as it did. A few weeks ago I snipped some stems from a healthy coleus, popped them in water, and waited. In just two to four weeks, I had four brand new plants ready to pot up. If you have a coleus you…

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A sugar maple tree cover in autumn leaves

How to Compost Fall Leaves: Turn Autumn Leaves Into Garden Gold

Every October, the big sugar maple near our garden shed drops its leaves in what feels like a single weekend. One day the yard is green, and the next I’m scrunching through ankle-deep gold and wondering where I left the rake. I used to see that pile as a chore. Now I see it as…

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Pumpkins in the pumpkin patch

October Gardening: Tasks and Tips

October is the time of year for pumpkins, squash, scrunching through piles of fall leaves, and enjoying the last of the lovely weather before winter sets in. Here in Virginia, October can go either way — sometimes it stays warm, and sometimes the first frosts move in and finish off the summer vegetables. At this…

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A head of bok choy growing in my garden.

How to Grow Bok Choy

I learned how to grow bok choy through trial and error. Last fall, I noticed some beautiful heads of Chinese cabbage (napa cabbage) at our local farmer’s market. When I asked the proprietor where it was grown, I found it was grown not five miles from my house! Well, that means I could grow all…

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