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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.

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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

Simple Vegan Thanksgiving Food Ideas Everyone Will Love

How to Cook a Turkey: Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe

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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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Natural Remedy for Tick Bite: New Course

The Herbal Academy has just launched a new course called “After the Bite: What You Need to Know About Tick-Borne Diseases.” This course features a natural remedy for tick bites and supportive herbal care after the bite. As someone who was seriously ill ‘after the bite’ – and didn’t even realize a tick had sent…

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June Gardening Tips: Everything You Need to Do in Your Garden This Month

I’m sharing these June gardening tips for gardening zone 7B. However, you can easily adapt them to your gardening zone. June is one of those months that feels like there’s so much to do in the garden you don’t know where to start. Fortunately, nature gives you extra-long days and plenty of sunshine! Whether you…

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Growing Ginger in the Home Garden

Growing ginger is fun. I was surprised to learn that I could grow ginger in Zone 7B, central Virginia. I attended a lecture by Ann Codrington of Nisani Farms several years ago. She discussed growing both ginger and turmeric. Her farm is in Maryland, but I discovered that both plants can be grown in both…

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Companion Planting with Herbs: Your Secret Weapon for a Healthier, Happier Garden

Every summer, without fail, I plant basil at the end of the raised beds. These are the beds filled with Roma tomatoes, the ones we harvest by the bushel to make our salt-free organic tomato sauce. My tomatoes thrive. “Did you know that basil repels aphids?” an organic gardener friend mentioned to me casually one…

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