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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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Tomato Recipes for Savoring the Harvest

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Easy & Delicious Fall Butternut Squash Soup Recipe

Making Tomato Sauce from Scratch

Yummy Peach Pie Recipe Made with Fresh Peaches

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18 Easy Squash Recipes

Zucchini Pecan Muffin Recipe

Chocolate Pecan Zucchini Bread Recipe

Strawberry Vanilla Yogurt Popsicle Recipe

Black Bean Burrito Recipe

Easy Crepe Recipe

dandelion greens recipe

Foraged Food: Dandelion Greens Couscous

raspberry filled muffin recipe

Raspberry Jelly Muffin Recipe

sweet potato fries recipe

Sweet Potato Fries Recipe

autumn waldorf salad recipe with leftover pork loin

Autumn Waldorf Salad Recipe with Leftover Pork Loin

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Chilled Cucumber Dill Soup

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September Gardening: Tasks & Tips

Fall is the time for mums, for pumpkins, and another round of pansies — for soft golden twilights and leaves crunching underfoot. September is the last month here in zones 6 and 7 when the garden is still lush and full. We’re harvesting the last of the tomatoes here at Seven Oaks, my farm near…

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Assassin Bugs – Scary Looking, But Beneficial Insects

We meet the strangest neighbors while walking the dog. This assassin bug was strolling across the pavement on a hot summer’s evening when we walked our dog. At first, I thought it was a wolf spider, but the leg arrangement, plus the narrower body, made me decide to snap a picture and use Google Lens…

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American Burnweed, the Weed That Signals Fall Is Here

I was walking my dog along the wood’s edge right near where we cleared land to build our greenhouse when I did a double take. There, like Jack’s magical beanstalk, had grown overnight this gem: American burnweed. Also known as fireweed or American burn weed, it grows rapidly – and I mean, rapidly. Like I…

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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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