food preservation

How to Can Your Own Food

It's the end of summer and lots of gardens and farmer's markets are overflowing with fresh produce.  What can we do to preserve the abundance? (The audio interview on food canning with Carrie Kenner is found here.) There are many ways to preserve the harvest. (more…)

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Super-Size Your Wallet + Smoothie Recipe

What's crazy about buying two pounds of organic strawberries for five bucks? Okay, obviously, the price. But what's crazy would be to buy the strawberries when bushels of them are oozing out of our garden beds. Then why on earth did I buy any more berries? For one, these are premium, seasonal berries that are in their…

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