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I Am Seeing Green Everywhere, That’s Green Beans!

Green beans have been in abundance lately.  The garden where I work has been turned into a CSA for the employees. Each week the Sanctuary Caretaker sends us out an email with what is available and make our selection.  Green … Continue reading

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Tomatoes, Tomatoes Everywhere – Canning Diced Tomatoes

My cousin and I decided to can tomatoes together this year – thought it would be better than doing my our lonesome.  We decided on 3 flats – the kids could play and we could can and it would not … Continue reading

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What To Do With All These Beets

Not having a garden this year we have been very fortunate to have so many farms and gardeners around us.  I recently ordered a 20 pound box of beets and planned on storing at least half of it for the … Continue reading

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Pickled Beets

As I have said many times in my beet posts – we LOVE beets in our house.  I have never been a big fan of pickled beets and I think is was more fear than dislike.  While at a lunch, … Continue reading

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Bread and Butter Pickles

Stella loves pickles – I mean she really LOVES them.  She could easily eat a whole jar in one sitting!  While she was away I decided I would try my hand at making some bread and butter pickles for her … Continue reading

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Peanut, Peanut Butter..Jelly, Grape Jelly That Is!

Now that you have made your fresh grape juice – you are ready to make some grape jelly!  We were so in the groove as we were making the grape jelly that I forgot to take many pictures – but … Continue reading

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Make Your Own Grape Juice

I thought the process of making grape juice would be more complicated than it actually was.  I am not a huge fan of grape juice or juice for that matter – but every once in awhile I do enjoy a … Continue reading

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Pickled Grapes?

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post – a friend needed to clean out her freezer of a past grape harvest – and we were looking for other things to do with the grapes besides juice and jam (those … Continue reading

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Summer Must Be Here, The Dehydrator Has Come Out Of Hibernation & Jam Is Being Made!

I know that summer is here because the dehydrator has come out of hybernation and the produce picking has begun!! I may have already mentioned this, but Stella is a Fruit-aholic!  So when fruit is on sale during the summer … Continue reading

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