5 Productive Garden Vegetables Every Homestead Should Grow
August 23, 2023Gardening can be both costly and time-consuming, so plant these 5 productive vegetables to ensure you get back a bountiful return on investment!
Recipe: Tomato, Cucumber & Red Onion Salad
July 20, 2023This tomato, cucumber and red onion salad is ridiculously simple, makes use of summer harvests and tastes amazing.
How To Grow Cucumbers
June 17, 2015Grow a top-notch cucumber harvest with these planting and harvesting strategies.
4 DIY Spa Treatments Using Cucumbers
August 20, 2014Need a bit of rejuvenation after hours of harvesting? Turn to the harvest itself for help.
Two Refreshing Drinks Using Cucumbers
August 13, 2014Tired of making pickles? We are, too, so we mixed up these beverages to use up our cucumber bumper.
New Hens on the Way!
August 2, 2012I am so excited! We’re getting four new chickens to add to our flock.
Recipe: Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad
July 25, 2012Photo by Judith Hausman Garden-bounty dinners are my favorite. After two hot weeks and two rainstorms, the cukes have popped. We raided the vines last weekend, uncovering a few giant specimens lurking under the prickly leaves. Still, I was sure they could be salvaged. Overgrown cucurbits require just a little more care unless they are hopelessly […]
Cucumbers, Cabbage, Fennel … Oh My!
July 28, 2011I harvested the first cucumbers of the season tonight—39 beauties! I could barely lift the basket when I was finished. I planted about five different cucumber varieties hoping that if some of them died from bacterial wilt, I would still have others continue to produce.
First ’Maters
March 25, 2011Finally! I put the first tomato plants in the ground yesterday. By my calculations, I’m about a month behind my usual planting schedule.
Pickles and Relish
January 5, 2011Photo by Judith Hausman The new pickles at farmers’ markets are making a real comeback from the traditional dill and bread ‘n’ butter. I also like to add eclectic flair to my preserved produce by making relish. Everything old is, as they say, new again. This weekend, in a traditional Russian deli in Brookline, Mass., I saw pickled […]
