One of my favorite childhood memories is the attention I got from my mom when I wasn’t feeling well. She’d keep me home from school and feed me comfort food. This included her chicken soup and ...

Rather than waste your hard-earned bounty, it's time to think about preserving your harvest ... To freeze leaves for individual use, remove them from stems, rinse and pat dry, then spread ...

Once you decide to treat your plants in fall with a formulated deer and rabbit repellent, timing is everything. Apply to dry ...

These gadgets remove air from food packaging, prolonging shelf life so you can buy perishable foods in bulk, preserve the produce you harvest from ... from dry to wet. I tested some meat cuts ...

The asparagus harvest season ... grow in heavy, medium, or sandy soils, as long as the soils must be well-drained and do not exhibit pooling water after rains. Before planting asparagus, have your ...

While overcooking can lead to dry, unpalatable fish, not everyone loves the idea of raw or undercooked salmon. The key to achieving the perfect dish while learning how to cook salmon is using the ...

But whether trying to use up our crop from our seasonal harvest or over ... you can either freeze it right away or blanch it, drain it, and then freeze it. It’s important to make sure the blanched ...

Begin by bringing a medium ... freeze quickly. The quicker they freeze, the less they are prone to having excessive ice crystals from developing. If space is limited in your freezer and it is not ...

This is 6 to 12 hours after harvest ... a cool, dry place. Screw bands are reusable if they are not bent, dented or rusted. Canning on a smooth or ceramic cooktop A smooth or ceramic cooktop is easy ...

Another dry week had farmers stepping up harvest activities as crops continued to dry down rapidly. USDA statistician Greg ...