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Growing Kale from Seed to Harvest

Kale is a frost-hardy cool-season dark leafy green in the brassica family. It’s high in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants; the easiest brassica for beginner veggie gardeners to grow and a versatile ingredient in the kitchen. Learn how to grow kale

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Lacinato kale seedling freshly planted in a garden bedA tray of kale seedlings with a mix of other cool-season vegetable seedlings like lettuce and bok choy

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Several pots of young pepper seedlings, some with green leaves and some with purple.
April 24, 2020

Starting Vegetable Seeds Indoors: Why, What you Need and How

In recent weeks, many of us have transitioned from having a vague awareness of something bad happening out there in the world, to other people, to realizing that we ourselves need to make serious changes to how we live our daily lives, including how

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Mason jar of clementine ginger marmalade with a spoon inside, and several clementines
March 11, 2020

Small Batch Clementine Ginger Marmalade

Marmalade can be a tough sell. Easier to romanticize the idea of than to genuinely enjoy consuming; you might not like marmalade at first, but it grows on you the more you eat it. As a child I imagined myself enjoying it, should I ever come across an

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five essential lessons of five years of vegetable gardening
January 8, 2020

Five Essential Lessons of Five Years of Vegetable Gardening

The 2020 growing season will be my 6th year growing vegetables organically in a zone 6 urban garden. I began with a few pots and planters on the patio and expanded each year, digging three 9 x 3 foot beds into the ground of my small yard, setting-up

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Spiced linzer cookie with a star shaped cut-out revealing the clementine marmalade inside, covered with icing sugar
December 22, 2019

Spiced Linzer Cookies with Clementine Marmalade

These spiced linzer cookies with clementine marmalade are great for anyone who doesn’t like their sweets too sweet, and they make a wonderful foil for any extra-sweet treats in a cookie box or holiday baking spread. They have a light crumb, from the

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