I CAN ALMOST taste it now: the flavors of the first spring crops, whether homegrown, or from your CSA share, or even ethically foraged…with the promise of a whole growing season of the freshest, tastiest produce to come. It’s the perfect time to think about adding some new recipes to our repertory that can really […]

LET THE seed shopping season begin. The 2024 offerings are being loaded into seed-catalog websites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation anxiety we may feel if we’ve already put our gardens to bed for the winter. One that I always look forward to […]

WHEN YOU SHOP for food—whether produce or meat or eggs—and see a label that says “organic,” what do you think that means? At its most fundamental level, I guess I always thought it meant vegetables grown on the fields of an organic farm—like, in the soil, or animals raised in its pastures. But increasingly, as […]

Edible Backyard The Healthy Soil Project #2: Sort Drainage + Compaction For soil to be in good health, water and air and roots must be able to easily flow through. When they cannot because of compaction or poor drainage, soil health never quite lands. Compaction is generally an easy fix, and mostly drainage is too […]

Edible Backyard May In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse As the vegie garden missions slow down, get stuck in and make compost. There’s heaps of finished crops/ flowers/ perennials/ homemade hay about, providing a bounty of ingredient – right there in your garden! If you want to make and use your own compost this is […]

Edible Backyard May Fruit Tree To Do List May is the month to get prep’d for new fruit trees + shelter trees . A little bit of tree research goes such a long way! As does my favourite stake + marinate, an easy, hands on way of working out what fruit tree goes where before […]

This sourdough discard coffee cake is soft and moist with a double cinnamon crumb. I’ve... The post Sourdough Discard Coffee Cake appeared first on Home Grown Happiness.

This sourdough challah recipe is everything you want from classic challah but with the extra... The post Soft Sourdough Challah appeared first on Home Grown Happiness.

Sourdough bread doesn’t have to be multi-day process! This same-day sourdough bread is perfect for... The post Same-Day Sourdough Bread appeared first on Home Grown Happiness.