The Canning Doctor

T his year, between the farm share and my own garden, I saved up five gallon-bags of tomatoes in the freezer, waiting for the season to end ...

W e spent a week recently on Lopez Island , part of the San Juan Islands in the Pacific Northwest. We rented a cottage near the ferry termin...

I t seems the conditions this year were right for the wild blueberries, and it was a cooler day than usual so my husband and I went to pick ...

O ne of the types of plants that we put in the front garden, which is an edible garden, were several red currant bushes. This is the first y...

T he farm share sent along a bunch of mint. I don't use fresh mint a lot in my cooking, maybe I should, but the first thing I thought of...

M aking stock involves taking meat or vegetable scraps out of the freezer and converting it to canned, shelf-stable stock. This is helpful f...

F or the past few months we've been getting a mushroom share from our CSA. Every other week we bring home about 2 pounds of oyster, lion...