yummy food to stay cool in the kitchen this summer
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Keeping Cool in the Homestead Kitchen during Hot Summer Days

Us home cooks know that as the temperatures outside increase, the desire to cook decreases. This isn’t usually due to lack of wanting to cook, but instead, the need to keep the house as cool as possible. This is why baking is done mostly in the winter months and cool dishes are served during the…

In the summer, you are probably not wanting to eat heavy, hot meals, and are looking for lighter, healthier summer meals to stay cool.
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3 Light and Healthy Summer Meals to Stay Cool in the Kitchen

  During the summer months, you are probably less inclined to eat heavy, hot meals, and are looking for more lighter meals. The good news is that not only are these lighter meals much more pleasant to eat in 90 and 100-degree summer heat, but many of them are very healthy as well. Another bonus? It gets you…

7 Practical Tips to Make Gardening Easier
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7 Practical Tips to Make Gardening Easier

Gardening is no easy task, especially if you have put quite a lot of effort into it. It won’t take you long before tending to the flower beds, pruning and doing all sorts of other gardening chores starts to feel tiring and overwhelming. The purpose of gardening is to make you feel happy, not super…

Understanding Garden Terms
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Understanding Garden Terms

Do you find yourself confused by terms like: hybrid, genetically modified, heirloom, open-pollinated, heritage and microsystem? In this article we will go over some basics that will help clear up some of the confusion. First, let’s look at the difference between a microsystem and an ecosystem. To gardeners an ecosystem would be used to describe…

Spring foraging
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Top Tips For Spring Foraging

What is Foraging? First off, you may be wondering, what is foraging and what does it mean? Well according to the Cambridge Dictionary, foraging means to go from place to place searching for things that you can eat or use for example:  The children had been living on the streets, foraging for scraps. The pigs foraged in the woods for acorns. The chef offers special dishes of wild and foraged foods, including wood pigeon and snails. Spring is a time for rebirth. A call to leave…