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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.

Earn Extra With Cottage Food-Approved Baked Goods

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Most cottage food laws allow the sale of home-baked goods, so consider launching a bakery business out of your farmstead kitchen.

Sweet Heat: Make Jam Using Hot Peppers & Peaches

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The tiny aji charapitas peppers can be intense, but fresh ripe peaches soften that jolt for a jam that's just right. Here's how to make it.

Recipe: Asian-Spiced Honey Chicken Wings

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These wings, made with soy sauce, lime, honey and Chinese five-spice, make a tangy appetizer at many gatherings. Make them spicy or mild.

“Ruffage” Applies Whole-Animal Butchery Principles to Vegetables

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Chef and farmer Abra Berens provides hundreds of recipes to cook vegetables in unexpected ways as well as knowledge on growing and storage.

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