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Some Tips & Recipes For Homemade Ice Cream

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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.

All About Sourdough: From Starter To Artisan Loaves

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Ready to get in on the sourdough craze? It's not as difficult as you might think. Here's how to create a starter and bake your own bread.

Use Your Melon To Grow & Enjoy Watermelons This Year

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Nearly 90 percent water, watermelons are also filled with bountiful flavor and nutrition. Start your summer this spring by planting some in your garden.

5 Extra Ways To Cook With Dried Beans

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The heirloom bean masters at Rancho Gordo in California have a handful of creative suggestions for getting extra mileage out of your dried beans.

Three Eggsceptional Egg Recipes To Travel By Taste

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Even if you can't escape the country for far-flung adventures, you can prepare these three egg recipes to give your taste buds international escapades.

Sweet, Springtime Flowers Make A Unique Violet Jelly

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With basic canning supplies and a yard full of violets, you can transform a common 'weed' into an extra-special batch of violet jelly.

10 Tips For Getting Started With Fermentation

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Fermented foods may boost immunity and digestive health. Follow these 10 tips to create a fermentation-friendly process for your produce.

Make Homemade Apple Pectin To Use In Jams & Jellies

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Have you ever wondered if you could make your own pectin? You can with this step-by-step recipe for homemade apple pectin.

“Wildcrafted Fermentation” Is Fermentation For Foragers

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In Wildcrafted Fermentation, author Pascal Baudar explores the possibilities of fermenting a wide variety of wild edibles.

Produce Profile: Grow Salad Mix For Healthy Greens

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Tender salad mix is the darling of salad eaters and restauranteurs everywhere, and it’s easy to grow your own.

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