The Best Way to Preserve Ginger Root, & Celebrations!
Follow me This is a good week to have a conversation about ginger root, isn’t it? After an intensely-satisfying week on my part (I spent the better part of Thanksgiving…
Read moreHow to Store your Potato Crop so it Will Last the Longest!
Follow me Growing plenty of potatoes for winter meals is a smart and relatively easy thing to do. If you harvest and store your crop correctly, you can serve your…
Read moreFlash-Freezing Splendid Bell Pepper Bounty: simplest way of all!
Follow me It’s always feast or famine in the ol’ pepper patch here at Old Depot Farm (that’s our place). Either we have more peppers than we know what to…
Read moreWild plums: hidden in plain sight but plum worth hunting for!
Follow me I have never picked so many wild plums in my life as I have this year, Gentle Reader. It must be a bumper crop year for prunus americanas…
Read moreHeirloom tomatoes: new favorites this year, fall 2015
Follow me I planted a lot of heirloom tomato plants this year. News flash. Since I didn’t really have a plan for marketing them, having closed up our farmer’s market…
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