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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.

Stir Fry Tofu and Napa Cabbage

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Gnocchi Recipe – Gnocchi with Mushrooms and Herbs

Recipe for Marinated Mushrooms

Cold and Flu Soup Recipe

Sweet potato sushi

Recipe for Sweet Potato Sushi

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Fall Apple Cabbage Salad Recipe

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Pumpkin Recipes Buttermilk Biscuits

Parsnip recipes include this soup.

Parsnip Recipes – Roasted Parsnip Cauliflower Soup

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The Best Holiday Gingerbread Cake Recipe

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Cooking Vegan – Healthful, Delicious and Easy

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Fresh Pea Recipe: Green Pea Salad

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Eggplant Recipe for Grilled Eggplant with Garden Pesto

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Pesto Recipe without Pine Nuts

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Tomato Recipes for Savoring the Harvest

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Easy & Delicious Fall Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

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A close up of radishes.

How to Grow Radishes from Seed: Easy Beginner Vegetable Garden Plant

I think every gardener starts with growing radishes. And why not? Radishes germinate readily, grow quickly, and add interest to salads. They’re also great when you have cabin fever after a long winter and you’re dying for something fresh from the garden. And while their spiciness may be an acquired taste, in some cuisines (including…

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Bok choy leaves photographed from above

My Fall Experiment: Growing Chinese Vegetables

Every gardener loves a good experiment, and this year mine involved stepping outside my usual vegetable lineup. I tried growing a few Chinese vegetables in my garden, and the results were delicious, a little surprising, and a whole lot of fun. If you’ve ever wondered whether these crops are worth a spot in your garden,…

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A close up of tatsoi, or vitamin plant, a Chinese vegetable, growing in a raised bed garden.

Growing Tatsoi: The Frost-Resistant Asian Vitamin Plant

Growing tatsoi (Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa (sometimes listed as Brassica rapa var. narinosa) offers fresh, leafy greens in USDA hardiness zone 7b throughout the fall and possibly the winter. Tatsoi isn’t sold in my local Kroger, Food Lion, or Walmart Super Center, but it’s easy enough to grow, and so delicious, that I plan to…

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A pot of red chrysanthemums on a wooden packing crate with pots and yellow mums on the ground.

November Gardening Tips

Tidying Up, Winding Down, and Looking Ahead Here in central Virginia, the first hints of fall show up in October, and by the end of the month cool nights are the norm. By November, frost is a given, the leaves have all turned, and most of the trees stand bare. November is a month for…

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