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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 home and can […]

How to make your own Powdered Flower Food

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flowers cut

A flavor explosion that you can add to any dish! Homemade Italian Giardiniera Giardiniera (jar-din-air-uh) is a delicious Italian pickled vegetable mix, often used as a condiment for sandwiches, salads, or antipasto. The translation of Giardiniera means garden/gardener and I couldn’t have described it better myself! This recipe packs in the veggies and is great […]

How to Make Mild Veggie Giardiniera

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gardiniera

As the growing season comes to an end, it’s time to think about preserving the beauty and vitality of your dahlia tubers for the next year. Right now here in Minnesota, we still haven’t seen a hard frost yet. I’ve been busy pulling out all of my other spent flowers and plants from the garden. […]

How to Harvest + Store Dahlia Tubers: Preserving the Beauty for Future Seasons

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dahlias

Have an abundance of fresh peaches on hand like us this year? Look no further than our family-crafted Peach Crisp Recipe to use up this delicious and versatile fruit! A mouthwatering and fresh dessert! Our peach tree has been producing pounds of perfect peaches this year! (does the alliteration make them sound more delicious??) Besides […]

The Best Peach Crisp | A Family Recipe

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peach crisp

Bringing you my Grandma’s Bread and Butter Pickle Pickle Recipe. Everything you want from a homemade sweet pickle – quick, crunchy, and so, so good! ‘Come on in kids’! “I’ll run to the cellar to grab the ice cream.” She’d say as we walked through her farmhouse door onto last week’s recycled newspapers laid out […]

Grandma’s Bread and Butter Pickles | Homemade Pickle Recipe

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canned bread and butter pickles

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