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How to Make Your Own Super-Chewy Ginger Candies

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This recipe for ginger candies produces powerfully spicy treats that can help to soothe sore throats, tame upset tummies, and satisfy your sweet tooth.

Recipe: Pickle & Can Those Late Season, Green Tomatoes

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management | Homesteading | Recipes |
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When ripening outdoors is no longer possible, you might as well enjoy your tomatoes in all of their green glory. Try pickling them with this recipe!

Grow Some Collard Greens, Then Try These Delicious Recipes

Crops & Gardening | Recipes |
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A Southern soul-food staple with a long history, collard greens are a delicious, nutritional powerhouse for the dinner table. Includes recipes!

Growing (and Cooking!) Eight Ball Squash

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No matter how you spell it, 'cousa' is a tasty, stuffed squash dish worth a try. Grow some Eight Ball squash (a small, round zucchini) for a tasty dinner treat.

Let Your Garden Grow The Perfect (Home) Spa Day

Homesteading | Recipes |
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Splurge on a spa day and save some cash in the process by concocting salon-quality treatments from your garden produce.

Maximize Your Garden Produce With Vegetable Broth

Recipes
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If you've got a varied vegetable garden, you should put your produce to use by making broth for use in soups, stews and more.

Artisan Homemade Soda Is A Refreshing Summer Treat

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Rekindle the lost art of artisanal sodas with homemade garden-inspired syrups. We look at how to make soda, as well as provide recipes.

Make Doughnuts For A Sweet, Homemade Treat

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Don’t settle for par. Easy, delicious homemade doughnuts and doughnut holes are within your reach and will delight your family and friends.

Sassafras Tea & Jellies Deserve A Place In Your Kitchen

Crops & Gardening | Homesteading | Recipes |
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Homemade tea and jellies used to be commonplace—until researchers suggested that a sassafras root ingredient was potentially carcinogenic.

Some Tips & Recipes For Homemade Ice Cream

Homesteading | Recipes |
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Homemade ice cream is easy to make and tastes better than most grocery-store offerings. Check out these tips and recipes for making your own dessert.

Four Creative Ways To Celebrate Ramps This Season

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Social media is a fertile ground for discovering new ways to cook with ramps, including adding the garlicky greens to sourdough, incorporating into hand-made tortillas and crafting a vodka infusion.

Talking Sourdough Bread With The Phoenix Bakehouse

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New York City-based founder Sarah Hoffman tells us how she turned a hobby dabbling with sourdough into a community and wellness-focused bread business.

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