One of the biggest blessings of a productive garden is the abundance of homegrown food—but when everything starts ripening at once, it can quickly become overwhelming! Today, I’m walking you through a typical summer harvest day here on our homestead, from cabbage and zucchini to herbs and blueberries, plus what I’m doing to preserve the harvest and get our pantry shelves stocked for the months ahead.| Melissa K. Norris
Welcome! One of the old forms of food preservation is fermenting and curing meat. It's also one of the tastiest in artisan salamis, pepperoni, aged cheeses, and of course, bacon, just to name a few. Not| Melissa K. Norris
Learn how to cook leather britches (a 200-year-old preservation method for green beans). With this recipe, dried green beans never tasted so good!| Melissa K. Norris