How to Harvest Shell Beans and Make Bean Soup with Ham
The boys and I continue working on cleaning up the garden and prepping food for winter storage. One of my recent additions to the mix is shell beans, which have to be one of the easiest storage crops...
View ArticleHow to Can Green Beans – Step by Step Instructions for Canning Green Beans
Home canned green beans are one of the boys' favorite veggies, so I try to process about thirty quarts each season. Our last round of “green” beans actually started out mostly as Purple Podded Pole...
View ArticleHomemade Baked Beans Slow Cooked with Bacon and Molasses
My youngest loves homemade baked beans and cornbread, possibly even more than he loves sloppy Joes. He'll eat them for three meals a day if I let him. I like this recipe because of the earthy molasses,...
View ArticleTransform Your Landscape with Vertical Gardening – Grow More Food in Less Space
Often when people start talking about integrating a garden or other food crops into the landscape, the design ideas still tend to focus on two dimensional diagrams. How many fruit or veggie plants can...
View ArticleFreezing Fresh Green Beans With or Without Blanching, Step by Step Instructions
Freezing fresh green beans is a quick and easy way to preserve them for later use. We'll walk you through how to freeze green beans, step by step, with or without blanching. Whether you're freezing...
View ArticlePickled Green Beans – Quick and Easy Canning Recipe
Spicy pickled green beans are a recipe that bring back memories of growing up on the farm, like pickled beets. Vinegar pickles of all different types were common on the table, from the jewel red beets...
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