Food Articles

Making Your Own Nut Butter is Easy and Delicous

Homemade nut butter allows you to control the ingredients, it saves you money, and it’s delicious! Whip up a batch and eat it plain or add your favorite flavor.

Eating Flowers for Health, Flavor and More

Edibles Flowers? Often overlooked as a food source, many flowers taste great, and offer many health benefits. Learn to enjoy their beauty AND food value.

Seven Tips To Get Children Involved in the Garden

These tips to garden with children will help you get them interested in gardening, and keep them excited about growing their own food and helping out!

Everything You Need to Know About Watermelon

Watermelon recipes along with all the watermelon facts you’ll ever need to know. Such a wonderful fruit with many varied uses and packed with nutrition.

How and Where to Find Sources of Real Food

The Real Food movement is sweeping the nation, and it couldn’t have come soon enough! This article discusses sources of real food so you can feed your family well.

12 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Family’s Footprint

Our ecological footprint is roughly defined as the impact our lives have on the environment, so let’s explore ways to reduce the eco footprint of the family unit.

Tasty Recipe For ALL Your Tough Garden Greens

This recipe for greens gives you a delicious way to slow cook ALL those garden greens. Using them all up used to be a daunting task, but not anymore!

How to Make Reusable Food Wrap

Reusable food wrap as a plastic wrap alternative makes sense on many levels. It helps reduce waste, is non-toxic, more sustainable, and you saves money.

Summer Fruit Tastes Great and is Good For You!

Summer fruit grown locally and picked ripe is packed with nutrients not found in supermarket fruits. Enjoy them in season and check out this great recipe!

How to Make Natural Ginger Ale

Learn how to make ginger ale without all the chemical additives, preservatives, and sweeteners. This delicious recipe is easy, natural, and delicious!

Things I’m Growing in My Garden This Year

What to grow in a garden depends on a lot of things, including where you live and what you like. But if you’re unsure check out this list of things I love to grow.

Solutions To Common Problems in Tomato Plants

Learning how to grow tomatoes successfully is a task easier said than done. Read this article to learn how to solve many common troubles with growing tomatoes.

Tips for Buying in Bulk to Help Save Money

Buying in bulk is a great way to save money, as long as you store things properly and use it all up. Use these tips to get them most out of your bulk purchases!

The Many Benefits Of and Uses For Honey

The health benefits of honey – and its many different uses – are numerous and diverse, especially if you’re using raw, local honey. Here are some of our favorites.

Essential Oils: Uses & Frequently Asked Questions

Essential oils are actually quite easy to use once you get the hang of them. This article walks you through the uses and FAQs for many common essential oils.

How to Make Naturally Sweetened Freezer Jam

Freezer jam is a great way to preserve your bounty of in-season fruit. Use our recipe to naturally sweeten any of the fruit jams you put up this year.

Do It Yourself Projects to do With Children

These projects to do with kids enable you to involve children in the process of learning to do more things themselves and exercise their creativity.

How to Protect Your Plants From Frost

Have frost on plants in your garden? Learn how to protect them from frost and keep them strong and healthy in early and late frost seasons.