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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.

Fresh Food Wednesday: Low Cal Caprese Grilled Cheese

Fresh Food Wednesday: Chilled Cucumber Soup Recipe

Fresh Food Wednesday: Cranberry Spinach Salad Recipe

grow lettuce in your garden

Fresh Food Wednesday: First Spring Salad

Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad, Fresh Food Wednesday

Broccoli Bean Pasta Salad

Foodie Friday: Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrots

Fresh Food Wednesday: Carrot Slaw Recipe

Crock Pot Ham and Vegetable Soup Recipe

Recipe for Fudge Ecstasy Cookies

Recipe for Five Ingredient Fudge

Roasted Parsnip Fries Recipe

Foodie Friday: Stained Glass Cookies

Foodie Friday: What to Do With Leftover Beans and Corn? Potato It!

Easy Chicken Enchilada Recipe

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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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A bench with a zinc pail filled with apples. On the bench, squash, apples, and gardening tools

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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An assassin bug, blending into the roadway

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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