Adventures in Gardening: Hügelkultur Experiments

Periodically, I write about gardening on this blog. I'm sure some readers scratch their heads and wonder why, given that I generally foc...

Spicy Plum Chutney

Image from Wikimedia Commons When I first started developing an interest in canning, I was looking for a way to preserve some of the fruit o...

Singing the Praises of Dehydrating Frozen Veggies

Last year, I got a food dehydrator as an experiment to see if it was useful in preserving our garden harvest. Although I'm still pretty ...

Spicy Ginger Applesauce

I'm busy catching up on a few projects, so another fluffy post today. Haven't posted much on gardening or canning this year, so thou...

Trench Composting

Do you compost your food and garden waste? For years we didn't. I wanted to, but my husband was convinced it would be too messy and woul...