How to Use All of Your Garden Tomatoes (Recipes)
This article was co-authored by Catherine Bleish and Elizabeth Klebart. Are tomatoes coming out of your ears, yet? Personally, I (Elizabeth) like to slice them like apples and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper. But if you’re feeling more adventurous, there are plenty of delicious, seasonal recipes to use up all of those wonderful tomatoes. […]
Ultimate Recycling: 8 Fruits And Veggies You Can Regrow From Scraps
Buying and eating organic can get quite pricey these days, but what if you could turn your left overs into fresh new produce? The practice of cloning plants has been used one way or another for thousands of years, but with today’s conveniences, it’s easy to forget that you can regrow food from scraps. This […]
Canning Spaghetti Sauce Recipe Using Fresh Tomatoes: Jar it and store it for later!
As food at the grocery store becomes more skeptical for naturalist, we find it is better to grow food ourselves. This way we know how to and what is used to grow it in our attempts to avoid pesticides, GMO’s, and other synthetic ingredients. It is not enough for us to just grow our own […]
Companion Planting Romance: Tomatoes Love Basil
Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for the benefit of both plants such as pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial creatures, maximizing use of space, and to otherwise increase crop productivity. Companion planting is a form of polyculture. Companion planting is used by farmers and gardeners […]
The Tomato Leaf Myth: Debunking the Poisonous Lie
Have you ever heard that tomato leaves are poisonous!? What if I told you they not only aren’t poisonous but that they’re actually really tasty and medicinal! Like all vegetables, they contain alkaloids that help defend against overgrazing, but they aren’t the toxic menace they’ve been put off as! Nicotine and cocaine (not the street […]
Blush Family: First Campground Garden Harvest
We have been living in our converted school bus for one year and we finally planted a garden! Blush Family, First Garden Harvest We traveled from campground to campground throughout 2015 and decided we wanted to stay in one spot long enough to grow some food! So here we are in May harvesting the food we […]