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Recipe: Basic Water Bath Canned Tomato Juice

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It's finally tomato season! Use this recipe for a simple, delicious and versatile tomato juice that can be water bath canned to enjoy for months to come.

5 Edible Flowers To Grow In Your Garden

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Don't forget edible flowers in your garden! From nasturtiums to dandelions to even pansies (and more), edible flowers add color and nutrition to your plate.

Recipe: Nectarine Caprese Salad Is The Perfect Summer Salad  

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Adding nectarine to the classic Caprese salad recipe levels up this already classic dish to create what's possibly the perfect salad for warm-weather dining.

Save Seeds From Annual Flowers With These Tips

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Save seeds today to save money next year! Here are some tips for saving seeds from 5 of the simplest annual flowers you may already have in your garden.

Recipe: Simple, Simply Fabulous Fermented Blueberries

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Fermented fruits are easy and tasty, so before blueberry season is over get a batch of these delicious fermented blueberries going with just berries and salt.

Head-Clipping Weevils Devastate Coneflowers, Sunflowers, Other Aster Family Members

Beginning Farmers | Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Homesteading |
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Head-clipping weevils can cause major destruction in a pollinator garden, so here's what to look for and how to stop Haplorhynchites aeneus in its tracks.

5 Fillers To Make Your Garden Look Mature

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First-year gardens often seem weak and too spaced out, but these 5 fast-growing garden fillers will give you a fuller-looking garden.

Recipe: Zucchini & Feta Fritters With Garlic Aioli  

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Use your garden's summertime zucchini bounty with this recipe for delicious zucchini fritters. And whip up some fresh aoli to make dinner extra tasty!

Test Acidity For Blueberries With A Simple Soil Tester

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It’s time I got my blueberry bushes the right acidity to produce more blueberries. But that’s easier said than done, as my new soil tester informs me.

Edible Bike Lanes Could Be An Ecosystem Game-Changer

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Foraging | Permaculture |
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Bike lanes, with interconnected networks of easily accessible greenspace, offer vast opportunities for edible ecosystems of fruits, berries, herbs and more.

Recipe: Tomato, Cucumber & Red Onion Salad 

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This tomato, cucumber and red onion salad is ridiculously simple, makes use of summer harvests and tastes amazing.

Survey For Edible Ecosystem Design In New Mexico

Crops & Gardening | Farm & Garden | Farm Management | News | Permaculture |
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On a recent survey of New Mexico, author Zach Loeks noted a number of observations about growing edible ecosystems in arid environments.

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