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Cooking and preserving traditional food from scratch is one of my passions, and it’s even better if it includes homegrown, foraged, or fermented ingredients. I prefer to use whole foods and many of my recipes use herbs, flowers, and other fresh from the garden ingredients. Sourdough is another passion, and I also have a thing for cooking in cast iron pans!

Learn how to make sourdough tortillas, roasted beets and their greens, and traditional nitrate free corned beef.

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No Bake Pumpkin Coconut Cups

These no-bake pumpkin coconut cups are an easy-to-make fall snack or treat. If you’re looking for healthy pumpkin recipes with real food ingredients, these pumpkin cups are perfect! Made with a homemade coconut butter recipe, these fall treats are vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free, and delicious! Healthy Pumpkin Treats I love pumpkin season! I know, it seems…

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How to Make Pepper Jelly: Mild or Hot

Pepper jelly is an old-fashioned treat that you can easily make in your kitchen today! This pepper jelly recipe is sweet and sour, with an option for adding a kick of spice. This is a great way to use up end-of-season garden peppers. Pepper jelly has been popular since my Grandmother’s day, and for good…

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Homemade Tomato Soup with Fresh Tomatoes

There is nothing quite like homemade tomato soup! This roasted tomato soup recipe is perfect for using up your surplus garden tomatoes, and is a homemade bowl full of comfort just as the weather begins to cool down. Roasted Garlic Tomato Soup This roasted tomato soup recipe is a super simple and very flavorful way…

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Pickled Jalapeño Peppers: Quick Refrigerator Recipe

Make pickled jalapeño peppers to preserve your jalapeños and add some spice to your life! This pickled jalapeños recipe uses apple cider vinegar and honey for natural quick pickle deliciousness. How to Pickle Jalapeños If you are wondering how to preserve jalapeños, pickling them is an easy and delicious way to keep their spicy flavor…

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Green Tomato Recipes: Cook & Preserve

These green tomato recipes will help when you have unripe tomatoes to harvest as the weather cools down before fall. If you’re buried knee-deep and wondering what to do with the abundance, try some of these methods to use and preserve green tomatoes! What to Do with Green Tomatoes By the time late summer and…

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Refrigerator Pickled Green Tomatoes

Pickled green tomatoes are a super tasty way to use up your end-of-season green tomatoes. Made quick pickle style, this green tomato recipe is easy to throw together and is ready in no time! Pickled Green Tomatoes Often as fall creeps its way in with cool nights and shorter days, we are left with tons…

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Refrigerator Dill Pickles (Quick Pickles)

Refrigerator pickles, sometimes called quick pickles, are a fast and easy way to preserve cucumbers, especially when you don’t have enough produce to justify canning several batches. Learn how to make refrigerator dill pickles! About Quick Pickles While fermenting is one of my favorite forms of preserving foods, every once in a while I crave…

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How to Preserve Cucumbers: Ferment, Can, Freeze and More!

Knowing how to preserve cucumbers is an important skill set if you’ve got an abundant cucumber plant. Pickles, of course, are a top choice for preserving cucumbers. But there are many ways from freezing cucumbers to infusing to dehydrating that will add delicious variety to your pantry! When it’s cucumber season, sometimes you’re knee-deep in…

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Queen Anne’s Lace Fritters

Make these Queen Anne’s lace fritters for a delectable late-summer appetizer. These flower fritters can be made sweet or savory depending on your mood. Queen Anne’s lace flowers are edible and delicious, and this Queen Anne’s lace recipe is a great way to make use of them when they’re growing rampantly in your yard! Each…

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Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles

Pickles are a necessity for a happy life, and these refrigerator bread and butter pickles are mega delicious and super easy to make. With a taste that is vinegary, a little sweet, and a little salty, this bread and butter pickle recipe is a perfect way to preserve summer cucumbers. Bread and Butter Pickle Folklore…

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Hello there! I’m Colleen.

I want to inspire you to live seasonally, become more self sufficient, and protect your health. I share information on foraging and wildcrafting, fermenting and preserving, cooking whole foods from scratch, permaculture gardening, and making herbal products. And that’s just the beginning! Learn more.

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