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    It’s Potato Planting Time

    If you haven’t eaten a homegrown potato, you don’t know what a real potato tastes like. Spring’s the time to plant potatoes in the vegetable garden. Here’s everything you need…

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    Six Seed Selections to Sow for the Summer Season

    While you are considering which seeds to order for this coming season, here are a few favorites that I have been growing for many years. While I try new plant…

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    Tortilla Soup–Comfort Food

    There is nothing like a bowl of nourishing hot soup on a cold winter day, especially a grey, damp rainy day that sort of seeps into the bones in your…

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    Snow: Poor Man’s Fertilizer

    Is this familiar adage an old wive’s tale? In fact, snow does contain nitrogen and other particulates like sulfur, which it collects as it falls through the atmosphere, however so…

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    Seeds

    If you haven’t ordered your garden seeds for 2018, now is the time. As I sit by the woodstove looking out on another grey, cold day, the precipitation is coming…

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    Make some Healthy and Hearty Soup for the New Year

    This soup blog was inspired by our recently departed, Dr. James Duke, an inspiration and mentor to many of us--and a master soup maker. There is nothing like a warm…

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    Tools for the New Year

    Here are a few gifts that I ask for every year--as well as a few new tools that I received this holiday season. These are items that I find essential…

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    Early December Garden to Kitchen

    We have had a mild autumn/winter season thus far in my zone 7 Maryland garden. Still able to do chores in the garden and bring in bounty to create warming…

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    Sage—It’s not just for turkey!

    Every year when Thanksgiving rolls around, folks get out their spice jars of neglected, little used sage--albeit some buy it fresh for the holiday, and then there of those of…

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    Use the last of your tomato harvest to make: Tomato Bisque with Curry and Coconut Milk

    During our recent celebration of the Herb Harvest fall Festival at the Ozark Folk Center, we had a Caribbean-influenced menu. The following soup recipe was one of the favorite menu…