Instead of buying people more stuff this holiday season, why not buy (or even better, make) them something they can eat or drink? Think cookies, breads, candies (or our favorites) jams, salsas, and ...
We are huge fans of locally grown food, but as Cambria pointed out earlier in the week, sometimes the surplus of one type of seasonal produce can be overwhelming. Here are our favorite ways to use up ...
In case you hadn't noticed, we're a little obsessed with canning here. It's a great way to eat local all year long ... and it's fun. But do you know where it all started?...
One way to eat locally grown food all year (other than joining a CSA) is to get crazy about preserving the last of your summer produce. And we don't mean just canning... ...
A little earlier today, Amber wrote about the resurgence of modern homesteading. If you're interested in jumping on the bandwagon, but don't know where to start, we just found a nice collection of res...
We just about died when we read this headline over at Treehugger this morning: "Is There Bisphenol A In Your Home Canning?" We're impatiently waiting on a shipment of Mom's homemade organic strawberry...
Canning has become quite the buzzword these days — people are canning up a frenzy across the nation, and co-op groups are popping up all over the place. Raise your hand if you thought pickles ...
Barbara Kingsolver is an expert on eating local, really local. Anyone who joined us during the first Re-nest Book Club (reading Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle) knows what we're talking abou...
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