While we know vegetables are packed with essential vitamins and nutrients that our bodies need to thrive, convincing our offspring of this fact can sometimes be difficult. Let’s look at some fun ways you can encourage your child to eat veggies without bribing or coercion.
Category Archives: Produce
What To Do With Beets
Canned beets, pickled beets, grated beets, and even beet cake and dyes. If you’re desperate to use the fall harvest or you simply love beets, here are a few new ways to use all of that fresh fall produce.
Picking Beans and Saving Seeds
Are you new to the world of beans? Learn how to grow beans, when to pick them, and how to save bean seeds.
How to Grow Your Own Dry Beans
Harvested at full maturity and dried for storage, beans are a very high source of protein. Learn tips for growing beans in your own home garden, and how to harvest as dried beans.
How to Freeze Berries
There is nothing like fresh, succulent berries to jazz up a smoothie or dessert during the summer months. But what do you do when you long for that flavor come January? The produce aisles have an abundance of berries during the summer months, why not take advantage of the fresh fruit at a great price and freeze them to use for later? Freezing berries is extremely simple and leaves you with a supply of summer’s goodness to get you through a long winter.
Grow an Herb Garden for Luncheon Idea
Inspiration to grow a garden can come from many places – recipes or a menu plan are just two ideas. Local garden clubs often plan a luncheon of edibles from an herb, vegetable, or flower garden grown during the summer to celebrate the season.
How to Grow Asparagus in a Home Garden
Asparagus is a perennial vegetable that is rather expensive to purchase in the grocery store, but very easy to grow for yourself in a victory garden. And if you are the type of person who likes to maximize their time, energy, and money, you’ll be pleased to find out that asparagus is a perennial vegetable. This means you will only have to plant asparagus once, but you’ll have a harvest year after year.
