Summertime means summer fruit! Nothing beats fresh ripe juicy fruit on a warm summer day. Unfortunately, supermarkets don’t often have the freshest or tastiest fruit and farmer’s markets can be too expensive or very inconvenient. What to do for your summer fruit fix? Why not try a “pick your own” farm? In such an urban ...
Every year about this time, I take my kids to a pick- your- own apple orchard. There is nothing quite like the taste of a freshly picked apple. They taste like fall. Orchards are a inexpensive and fun way to spend the afternoon with your family. In Ohio the link to find a farm is ...
Hot pepper plants are an easy garden plant to grow, and they produce plenty of peppers all summer long. If you are anything like me, you have several different varieties growing in your backyard garden. There is a limit to how many hot peppers that anyone can eat fresh off the plant. Ideas for ...
Fruits and berries, especially when hand picked or home-grown, are one of the joys of summer and fall. Almost every fruit you can grow contains delicious juices, and juicing the fruit can be a rewarding and fun way to use excess fruit or bruised and damaged specimens. While a fruit juicer adds many possibilities to ...
After Labor Day, Ohio slowly makes it’s way into fall with falling leaves, cooler temperatures and for many families: Apples. According to the University of Illinois, 63% of apples grown in 2005 were eaten as fresh fruit. There is no way to get apples any fresher than picking them right off the tree. Many families ...
Being The Frugal Fraulein that I am, I wanted some canning labels to print for free. I have some large glass jars that store dried goods to label and hundreds of filled canning jars. I went fishing for free. Free is my favorite word. I store all my dried goods, rice, beans, pancake mix, baking ...
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