First, it has olive oil in it, and second, the finished ratatouille is too thick to be pressure canned safely. Since it ...

Mums are everyone's favorite fall flower, but if you're looking for something with a little more staying power, these blooms ...

Wind down the growing season right by taking care of a few simple tasks that will boost your final tomato crop and set you up ...

The humble red onion turns into a spectacular pickled condiment when combined with a few spices and vinegar then aged in your ...

Did you grow bland garlic this year? It's an easy fix, but you need to take care of a couple of things this fall and next growing season.

If you want beautiful marigolds year after year, that have adapted perfectly to your growing conditions, you need to save ...

While bees and their remarkable raw honey generally get a lot of buzzingly good press, we often lose sight of the other amazing gifts they have to offer. Beeswax is an age-old, renewable material that ...

Don’t you love easy food? There’s something so satisfying about saying, “I made it from scratch,” and knowing that it took you all of five minutes to make. Honey-fermented ginger is like that. It’s ...

Broadly defined, invasive plants are non-native species introduced to a particular region where they are able to spread far and wide. Exotic plants from faraway lands may be beautiful but there is no ...

If you want to save tomato seeds to grow next year, it couldn't be easier. But there are a couple of important things to keep in mind.

When your primary heating source is wood, you find yourself cleaning out the wood stove quite a bit during those colder months of the year. Before long you’re dumping out your ash bucket once or twice ...

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. While most of the typical garden cultivars would require you to harvest, store, and then sow ...