by Renee Pottle | Mar 18, 2013 | gardening, Grow Your Own Food
An abundant garden or CSA is cause for joy. But it can also lead to some angst. After all, what do you do with bushels of tomatoes or cartloads of zucchini or mounds of apples? If there is a time to get creative, this is it. See all of our great suggestions below and... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 14, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
There was a time when every young woman in New England learned how to bake beans before setting up her own home. It was a right of passage, sort of the Puritan answer to a debutante’s ball or filling one’s hope chest with pintucked silks. Baked beans were,... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 12, 2013 | and sweet treats, Recipes From the Garden
Here’s a great recipe to use up some of the dried fruit you made last summer. What is muesli? I like to think of it as hot oatmeal without the heat! If you, like me, never could stand mushy oatmeal, muesli may be the answer. Made from whole grain oats, dried... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 11, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
If you grow tomatoes, you have probably faced the short days of autumn with a bounty of green tomatoes. Beautiful, plump tomatoes that are just not going to turn red. One way to quickly deal with all those tomatoes before the frost gets them is to chop and freeze... 
by Renee Pottle | Feb 8, 2013 | Recipes From the Garden, Soups, Sauces, and Entrees
I once read a theory that our favorite season is the one in which we were born. Uh-huh. I’ve spent most of my life chasing summer. Moving to Washington state from Maine was like a dream come true. Sunny days. Summer that started in May and didn’t end until...