Recipe: Tyrant Farms’ ground cherry preserves
If you’re lucky enough to have a bunch of ground cherries available, you’ll want to make this delicious ground cherry preserves recipe!
What percent of a tomato is water?
Have you ever wondered what percent of a tomato is water? We pulled out our scale and dehydrator to get the exact number.
Recipe: Black truffle popped quinoa
This popped quinoa recipe only has four ingredients and takes 10 minutes to make. It’s perfect for a delicious, high protein snack or side dish.
Recipe: Green tomato marmalade with smoked paprika & brandy
Our green tomato marmalade recipe took years to perfect and is the best way to use up lots of unripe green tomatoes. You’ll love these sweet & smoky preserves!
How to safely kill mosquitoes in your yard
Want to safely get rid of mosquitoes in your yard using methods that don’t harm people, pets, or wildlife? Find out how!
We’ve been busy, how about you?
Sorry we’ve absent for so long! Between the Farm at Oak Hill Cafe, family tragedies, and regular work, making time to write has been a challenge.
Garden hygiene: response to a question from Joan Axthelm
Joan Axthelm asked about our garden hygiene approach, specifically how we avoid eating pathogens or contaminated food from our garden. Here are our answers!
Part II: How to Build a Backyard Pond with DIY Biofilter
A commenter asked some great, detailed questions about our DIY backyard pond we built for our ducks, so we answered them in this article.
Container Gardening Questions Answered!
We recently received a list of container gardening questions from a new gardener – our answers may be helpful to you as well!
Yes, wisteria flowers are edible and they make delicious drinks
Wisteria flowers are edible, delicious, and nutritious. They’re great eaten raw but you can also turn them into an amazing fermented sparkling cordial.
Morel mushrooms: a massive foraging haul and some new recipes
Morel mushrooms are fruiting! We’ve seen some of our biggest harvests ever this year, and the morel recipes we’ve been making have been incredible.
Starting a Farm – Oak Hill Cafe, Farm To Table
In collaboration with That Gardening Guy, we’re starting a no-till farm for Oak Hill Cafe, a farm-to-table restaurant in Greenville, SC. We’ll be sharing what we learn along the way!
Sorrel: a veggie that tastes like lemons (+sorrel soup recipe)!
Both wild and domesticated sorrel are delicious lemon-flavored treats. Here’s a sorrel soup recipe for the veggie that packs more Vitamin-C than citrus!
How to avoid getting sick (and feel better)
I’ve successfully used these 10 practical approaches and tips to completely avoid getting sick for well over a decade. You can use them too.
DIY grow lights: easily grow garden seedlings, microgreens, and more
These DIY grow lights are affordable, easy to set up, and can produce hundreds or even thousands of dollars in edible plants each year!