We have reduced the varieties of vegetables we’re growing by about 40. But we still have 60-70 varieties we’re growing this year. I’ll share with you today how we buy and organize our seeds.
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Cream of Tomato Soup
We love soup at our house. Not only is it a wonderful seasonal dish for fall, but it can be a delicious, nutritious and quick meal when fall and winter days are busy. By using tomato sauce and grated onion, we don’t need to use the blender. As a result, this cream of tomato soup is almost as easy as the congealed stuff from a can, but so much more delicious.
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Dried Tomatoes Stored in Oil
We’ve talked about a number of ways to preserve foods when in season so we can enjoy them for months to come — canning, freezing, fermenting. Today we’ll talk about drying or dehydrating. You can dehydrate many foods for longer shelf-stable storage, even things you might not think of. Not only fruits and vegetables but also meat (think jerky), dairy or eggs. And there are a variety of ways to dehydrate foods using the sun, the air, the oven or a dehydrator. Today we’re making dried tomatoes stored in oil using our dehydrator.
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Tour Our Summer Garden
The summer is still hot, but we’re already looking toward fall. Join us for a tour of our summer garden. Some of the plants in our garden have been harvested completely, some are finishing up and looking a little sad in the summer heat and unusually dry weather, but we still have some we’re very much looking forward to harvesting. Find out what we planted for the first time this year, what did well for us, what didn’t quite work as planned. In addition, what will be in our fall garden.
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