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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 […]

How to make your own Powdered Flower Food

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flowers cut

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 […]

A Year in the Life of Our Garlic Patch: From One Clove to A Year’s Worth of Flavor

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Harvesting Garlic

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 […]

Fresh Summer Salad made with Lemon, Orzo, and Arugula

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Lemon Arugula Salad with Almonds

There are some recipes that become tied to a season so deeply, you can almost smell them before you make them. A Simple Summer Dessert My grandma always seemed to have a pan of rhubarb crisp cooling on the table this time of year. The kitchen windows would be open, the garden beginning to fully […]

Grandma’s Rhubarb Crisp | Delightfully Tasty and Rooted in Tradition

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Rhubarb Crisp with Ice Cream

Made with Rhubarb Syrup – a fresh drink that carries through the summer My grandma always had a hot pan of rhubarb crisp cooling on the table this time of year. We’d walk into her kitchen and the smell would already be there—tart and buttery and warm—settling into everything like it belonged. And when we […]

Fresh and Creamy Rhubarb Cooler made with Homemade Rhubarb Syrup

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Rhubarb Cooler

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