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Making homemade powdered flower food is a simple and effective way to nourish and prolong the life of your fresh flowers. Powdered Flower Food is something you can create with just a few simple household items: sugar, baking soda, and citric acid. We use this recipe for our fresh cut flowers at […]

I cleaned out the cut flower garden this weekend. All of it. It might seem a little early to call it quits when September still has plenty of flowers to offer, but I needed to see the garden without anything growing in it. I needed to see the dirt, the paths, the shape of the […]

Walk into our home during harvest season and you’ll find bundles of flowers and herbs air drying overhead. There are a lot of things I love about growing flowers and herbs. There are also a lot of things I don’t love about growing flowers and herbs. Like figuring out where in the world to put […]

A breakdown of our garlic season to season: A crop that takes it’s time, and we’re grateful for it. Garlic Season to Season Every fall, when most of the garden is winding down and the last tomatoes are being picked, we start thinking about next year’s garlic. It always feels a little backwards. The garden […]

July calls for simple, fresh dishes and this salad answers! Lemon, Orzo, Arugula Salad: Fresh without being Fussy We just ended our fair week and it’s a relief to be able to turn to recipes that just seem to fall together. This Arugula Orzo salad is a dish that brings flavor and freshness without having […]

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