Peaches! Is there any flavor more full of summer sunshine and good feelings than the freshly picked peach? This is a great recipe for canning herbed peaches to enhance the flavor of your jam or preserves. With the addition of rosemary – one of my favorite herbs – I don’t think you could get this […]
Milestones and Moments
It is stunning to me how quickly my kids achieve their milestones. Evan and Brianna are reading Level 2 readers now. Micah can stay diligent to finish his assigned chores (trust me – this is a huge milestone). Adam is finally talking. And Vivian? Where do I start. This girl is truly living up […]
Green Beans With Lemon Garlic Sauce
If you are harvesting bushels of green beans from your garden like I am you’ll appreciate this delicious way to prepare and cook them. This preparation gives a unique cultural flavor to your green bean harvest or CSA box treasure trove. These are simply boiled or steamed a bit and dressed with a tarator sauce. This would […]
Build a Vertical Gardening TeePee DIY
Vertical gardens may seem like a fad, but it is popular for good reason. Even when you have a good sized garden space to use, there are great benefits to growing your veggies off the ground. We’ve found that squash in particular does much better when it’s up off the ground. No rotten spots for […]
Layered Baked Omelette Dinner Recipe
If you’re like me, your backyard flock of chickens is laying well, you are beginning to harvest the first of your summer produce, and you may be looking for creative ways to feed your family. This meatless meal relies on eggs as the primary protein source, but even without meat, you’ll find it filling and […]
Delicious Green Bean Salad With Citrus Dressing
The green beans are coming! And once they start trickling in they come in full force with bushels a day being harvested. We love to sautee our green beans in a dab of butter with some minced garlic but you can’t do that every day of the week all summer long. That’s why I adore […]
Best Two Ways to Conserve Garden Water #LowesCreator
As the summer temperatures rise to triple digits, we have to find ways to minimize heat stress on our garden and landscaping plants. Water is a precious natural resource that can never be taken for granted, so gardeners should take care that their gardening methods are water wise. There are two main things we do […]
Rosemary Pepper Grilled Pork
Rosemary is absolutely one of my favorite herbs. So today’s Eating Garden Fresh guide is giving rosemary a top billing in this recipe. I love the combination of simple ingredients, simple cooking, and delicious flavor. You simple cannot beat it.
Piccalilli – Green Tomato Relish
Like so many of us with gardens, you are probably gazing at those tomatoes just waiting for them to turn red. Well wait no longer! Green tomatoes don’t have to sit on the vine, and you can do more than fry them. Enjoy this unique relish called Piccalilli, from Backyard Homestead Adventure. I never even knew […]
Whole Wheat Blueberry Zucchini Bread
The kids literally devoured this blueberry and zucchini summer bread and it’s easy to see why.
Try a New Snack Sampler Box!
I recently went home and we started talking about the difference between “diet food” and healthy food – and we were laughing about the time my mom bought these “healthy” cookies. Jammer somethings. They were SO AWFUL. We tried to feed them to the dog and the dog wouldn’t even eat them. And we had […]
Nominate a Local Business for Go Daddy #NoWebSitis
Yesterday we drove almost 2 hours to a blueberry farm where we could pick blueberries. It was a rather long drive but it was the nearest you-pick farm we could find. I found other listings online on third-party sites that seemed closer to me but the phone numbers or email addresses bounced back and […]
