When you grow your own food in an attempt to sever ties with big agriculture and the mega grocery stores that sell their wares, you sometimes have to get a little creative. The traditional way to produce food is to ...
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How To Grow Asparagus
Growing asparagus in your garden requires great care, lots of attention, patience, and time. It is hardly the easiest vegetable to grow, but if you take the time and effort to do it, you will be rewarded with a springtime ...
Read More »Building Up a Root Cellar
Root vegetables are like the backup calorie base. They can add bulk and nutrition when the “pantry” cannot (like when you are sick of bread). Used in conjunction with the pantry items (flour, fats, grains, starches, etc.), the root vegetables ...
Read More »14 Vegetables and Fruits You Can Start to Grow Right Now
Starting Seeds Indoors If you’re like most people who live in a place that has winter, you are probably itching to get outside. Cabin fever tends to set in by January, although for the tougher amongst us, maybe not until ...
Read More »Growing a Low-Carb Garden
Many of us have chosen to change our eating habits from traditional western fare to a low-carb/high-protein diet. Whether it is for weight loss or better health – or both – this type of eating is becoming more popular. So this session we will talk about planting a low-carb garden. So what shall we plant in our low-carb garden? As it is cooling off, let’s start with cool-weather plants.
Read More »Freezing Basics For Vegetables
Freezing our bountiful harvest is an easy way of preserving our produce, but the foods will not keep as long. In freezing the organisms that cause spoilage become inactive. However, they don’t die. The bacteria can’t grow as long as ...
Read More »The Brassica Family
OK, before we get started on my regularly scheduled column, I’ve got a confession to make – I don’t have all those extra television stations on cable or satellite. Some of my friends and neighbors wonder how I can possibly ...
Read More »Canning 202: Low-Acid Vegetables
The acidity of a vegetable determines whether is should be processed in a water bath canner or a pressure canner. Low-acid vegetables (in fact, any low-acid food) do not contain sufficient acidity to destroy Clostridium botulinum bacteria, the bacteria responsible ...
Read More »Prepper Canning 102:The Water Bath Canner
As we discussed in last week’s article, canning the food we harvest is among the oldest of ways to preserve our fruits, vegetables, and other foods so that our families can be fed during the long cold winters and right ...
Read More »Prepper Canning 101: The Water Bath Canner
Canning the food we harvest is among the oldest of ways to preserve our fruits, vegetables, and other foods so that our families can be fed during the long cold winters and right through the spring to the next year’s ...
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