So I had a bowl of little yellow and red plums sitting on my counter for almost a week. I gleaned them from a tree down the street from my house, with the owners permission, and I could take as many as I wanted. They were not quite ripe when I picked them, so I…
Summer Recipes
Celebrate summer with seasonal summer recipes prepared with wildcrafted or garden fresh ingredients.
Discover foraged herbal treats like Herbal Popsicles with Lavender and Lemon Balm or Calendula Shortbread Cookies  and home-brew beverages such as Wildflower Mead.
Find recipes to preserve the bounty with summer recipes like Fermented Cherry Tomato Bombs and Dehydrated Sweet Peppers. And learn how to cook simple seasonal vegetables like Beets and their Greens.
Elderflower Sparkling Mead
Go foraging for elderflowers, and then make this sparkling mead recipe! This easy homemade sparkling elderflower mead recipe is low alcohol, delicately flavored, and the perfect foraged drink for a hot summer day! Simple Mead Making Ebook Want to learn more about making mead? I have a Simple Mead Making for Beginners eBook just for…
Blueberry Cornmeal Skillet Cake
This blueberry cornmeal skillet cake is so delicious and easy to make! I am usually not much of a sweets person, but when I do make something of that nature I almost always cut back on the sugar. This cake is not too sweet and perfect for any get together! Rustic Cast Iron Skillet Desserts…
Calendula and Thyme Shortbread Cookies
I have a lot of calendula growing in my backyard. This is not a bad thing, mind you, as calendula has many uses, but my mind kept turning to cookies (whose doesn’t?). It’s probably because of this Sweet & Savory Dandelion Shortbread post by Gather that I keep seeing. That recipe definitely sparked my idea…
Fermented Green Tomatoes: preserving the harvest
Green tomatoes are an inevitable part of homegrown tomato plants, as there always seem to be some that haven’t quite ripened before it gets too cold. While you can pick them green and bring them inside to ripen, sometimes there are so many green ones it makes sense to utilize them as they are. Of…
Fermented Dilly Beans
I love all kinds of pickles, always have. I was one of those kids who would eat dill pickles and briny olives straight out of the jar. Dilly beans, however, are somewhat new to me. My Mom has been growing green beans for the past few years in her garden and making dilly beans out…
How to Dehydrate Peppers for Food Storage
We’re at the end of summer when the bounty of the season is in full swing. Time to start preserving the harvest in any and every way. Canning and freezing are the most common ways to do this, but don’t forget about dehydrating! Here’s how to dehydrate peppers for food storage. Why Dehydrate Vegetables? The…
CSA Box Veggies: Grilled Corn Salad with Fresh Herbs
Hey my friends! Here’s the next post in my “What to do with your CSA Box Veggies” series, if you’d like to see the first two posts in the series check out How to Cook Beets and Their Greens and What to do With Cabbage. This one is all about corn, how to make grilled…
Fermented Chili Paste
When you have a bumper crop of hot peppers, make this fermented chili paste recipe. A delicious and naturally lacto-fermented hot chili paste that will knock your socks off! Chili Peppers for Fermented Chili Paste My friends, once you start fermenting things, you will never want to stop! Whenever you come into a bumper crop…
CSA Box Veggies: What to do With Cabbage
Well, hello there! Here we are in the middle of the growing season, and it’s time for a second round of how to prepare your CSA box (or farmer’s market) veggies! In the first round we talked about how to cook beets and their greens, and today we’re going to talk about what to do…