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A Peck of Peppers
One of my garden resolutions last year as I struggled to can 8 quarts of tomatoes was to make more recipes to can this year, instead of canning the ingredients.Yesterday I made a big batch of Thai spice tomato soup … Continue reading
Posted in garden, recipe
Tagged boldog peppers, feherozen peppers, paprika, paprika peppers, pepper sauce, peppers, red pepper recipe, spicy pepper sauce
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Canning Days
I’m only working two days this week, in part because the next few weeks will be very busy, but also because it is canning season. I can’t imagine being a teacher now– right when all the work has to be … Continue reading
Posted in garden, recipe, the Farm
Tagged canning, canning produce, fingerling, garden, La Ratte potatoes, potatoes, saving produce, vegetable canning, vegetable gardening
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Blogosphere
First, just had to share this photo of a little tree frog on a cucumber outside my front door last night. I guess he just wanted to be this green! Usually I have one on the metal part of my … Continue reading
Indian Marker Trees
Most Americans are Romantics when it comes to Indians. A large number of people will tell you that they have a Native American ancestor, although this is mostly the stuff of myth. I remember interviewing 99-year-old Sister Suzanne Helmin at the … Continue reading
Posted in St. Joseph
Tagged Indians, marker trees, midwest prairie, Native Americans, trees
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Tomatillos Every Way Possible
I’ve been distracted by my tomatillos. So very many tomatillos. The issue is that I haven’t really integrated them in with my other veggies. In fact, I am struggling with that in general. Last night I made Thai basil pesto and mixed … Continue reading
Thai Basil Pesto (and tomatoes)
There is so much going on in the garden it is hard to write a post on a recipe instead of the daily harvest. But I have to at least show you some tomato photos before I start picking them. … Continue reading
Posted in garden, recipe, Uncategorized
Tagged gardening, Paul Robeson tomatoes, pesto, thai basil, thai basil pesto, tomatoes, vegetable gardening
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The Varied Prairie
Every year the prairie is different. Last year it was glutted with black-eyed Susan (rudbeckia) and this year I have hardly seen any. The burn this spring has activated seeds of flowers we’ve never seen before. Among these, the most … Continue reading
Posted in the Farm, Uncategorized
Tagged bee on coneflower, bees, coneflower, marsh blazing star, prairie, prairie flowers, prairie restoration, wildflowers
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Garlic Festival
There is no doubt that tomatoes continue to rank very, very high on my list, mostly because garden tomatoes are so infinitely superior to grocery store tomatoes. However, the most expensive, most precious crop is garlic. When I first started … Continue reading
Posted in garden
Tagged garlic, garlic festival, growing garlic, Hutchinson, seed garlic
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Happy “Sneak Some Zucchini on Your Neighbor’s Porch Day”
For some reason, having a lot of a single vegetable makes us panic. What will I do with all these zucchini? What will I do with all these tomatillos? Instead of just continuing with our simple preparations, we begin looking … Continue reading
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Tagged gratin, recipe for summer squash, squash on porch, summer squash, tomatoes, vegetable gardening, zucchini
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Surprises
I’ve been vegetable gardening now for five years, and I’m no longer completely surprised that when I put in a seed, food grows. It is still amazing how much food grows from a single seed, but I also get downright … Continue reading
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Tagged cauliflower plant, garden, growing tomatilloes, growing watermelon, sugar baby watermelon, tomatillo, vegetable gardening, watermelon
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