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 How To Mulch Fruit Trees Fruit trees, on the whole, do best with a living mulch, which is simply a covering of plants as in the photo above (yes that includes grass and weeds!) A living mulch is not only super fertile, but its loads easier for you too – read more about […]

Edible Backyard Honey Butter Baked Apples When the Mayflower apples are ripe, this is the first thing I make. I love this recipe, they’re the best baked apples you’ll ever eat. And they’re great the next day – stirred through porridge, made into a crumble or eaten cold even (that’s me for ya). My fav […]

Edible Backyard June’s Fruit Tree To-Do List Planting, mulching and pruning – that’s the order of events this month. Planting is by far the most important! Plant fruit trees Yippee do – deciduous fruit tree/ berry and vine planting time is upon us. I hope in all the excitement of new trees, you have the […]

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.