Garden design, inspiration, and experience
Got any grapes? Let’s learn how to make and can grape juice! If you have a bumper crop of grapes, or just want to make your own juice from scratch, you can make and can your own homemade grape juice. And best…
A lot of my canning jars have been collected over a decade or more, bought new, thrifted, or gifted from friends. My mom watches estate sales at farms near her for them and brings me some when she visits. Suffice to say,…
Fall is the time for fresh pears, and also for canning. This salted caramel spiced pear butter recipe is not only delicious, it’s also easy! This rich, decadent canning recipe sounds much more complicated than it is. This is a simple…
I walk through the garden in the gathering fall, and find a last blooming Ferdinand Pichard rose and hips, a few tarrying half-ripened blackberries, pelted with pellets of icy snow on a grey November day. Beauty lingering, clinging to green, a wintery…
Peaches come, from a can, they were put there by a (wo)man, near a factory and dowwnntowwn… (that’s how it goes, right? No? Ok, close enough) Growing Cold-Hardy Peaches in Chicago I guess these peaches are technically not free, but the…
Sooo chill. OM gonna shovel the porch now… We got a foot of snow during my vacation (finally! It was use-it-or-lose-it time, and boy howdy, did I need the break). I have been basking in the coziness of home and the luxury…