On Thanksgiving Day, our family will gather around a table laden with the usual dishes: cranberries in Jell-o, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green beans, oven-warm rolls, sliced turkey and pickled beets. Lots of pickled beets, for everyone from grandpa to preschoolers relishes that tangy taste from home grown and canned pickled beets. This love […]
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“Canned tomatoes are like summer saved: all that deep sun kissed flavor ready to be enjoyed.” – Better Homes and Gardens The kitchen knife slides easily across the cooked beets, creating burgundy cross sections of summertime goodness slipping into sterilized jars. A cup of hot vinegar-sugar syrup tops the beets then the metal lid and […]
“We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us.” Jenny Uglow The circle of the seasons is in completion. Autumn breezes blow crisp leaves across the soil now planted with dwarf peas for ground cover. Raised beds that stood tall with green stalks and flowing […]
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“Local food is primary care.” –New England Farmer’s Union Photo by Dominica Cipriani Growing up, canning is what we did in the summer. Living on farms and in small Midwestern towns, boredom never dogged us like it does the urban kids. Pulling weeds, watering gardens, and stocking up for the winter captured the days of […]