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Summer Recipes

Celebrate summer with seasonal summer recipes prepared with wildcrafted or garden fresh ingredients.

Discover foraged herbal treats like Herbal Popsicles with Lavender and Lemon Balm or Calendula Shortbread Cookies  and home-brew beverages such as Wildflower Mead.

Find recipes to preserve the bounty with summer recipes like Fermented Cherry Tomato Bombs and Dehydrated Sweet Peppers. And learn how to cook simple seasonal vegetables like Beets and their Greens.

Fig Honey Butter: Homemade Preserves

If you have a fig tree in your backyard, then you know how prolific they can be! This is not a bad thing, as figs are delicious, but they don’t last long once they are ripe. They also tend to all be ripe at once! It’s inevitable that they will need to be preserved somehow,…

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15+ Ways to Preserve Zucchini: Freeze, Can, Ferment, and Dehydrate

Some summers are zucchini summers, and we are in the midst of one right now! Preserving zucchini to last through the winter is actually easy to do. There are four main methods for how to preserve zucchini: freezing, canning, fermenting, and dehydrating or drying. How to Preserve Zucchini Zucchini can sometimes grow a little bit…

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A jar of peach jam surrounded by a plate of toast with peach jam, whole peaches, and more jars of peach jam. On a blue surface with a natural colored cloth weaving through.

No Sugar Peach Jam: Canning Recipe (Low Sugar or Honey Option)

Peaches are the epitome of summer fruit! At the peak of summer, peaches are so sweet and delicious, but they don’t last long. Preserving peaches into a jam is the perfect way to experience that flavor through the fall and winter! Many recipes for jam and other preserves call for so much sugar, which isn’t…

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Fermented Jalapeño Hot Sauce

{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} Fermenting is one of the best ways to naturally preserve foods, and is a great way to use up a bumper crop of veggies from your garden. If you’ve never had fermented jalapeño hot sauce before, you’re in for a treat! It is a little spicy without…

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Calendula Iced Tea: Botanical & Refreshing

{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} Calendula is a beautiful flower that just happens to also be edible and beneficial. It is definitely one that I always have growing in my garden! It reseeds itself readily and comes back year after year without any inputs. The beautiful orange color of calendula flowers make…

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80+ Mint Recipes: Drinks, desserts, remedies + more!

These 80+ mint recipes for food and medicine are sure to please! Use up all of that mint in your garden with these recipes for food, drinks, desserts, bath & body, and remedies. Cooking and Using Mint There are many reasons to grow mint, but we all know the best reason, that delicious intense flavor…

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Kosher Dill Pickles: Canning Recipe

{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} As August rolls along, I’m usually busy in the kitchen canning up whatever I can! Whenever there is an excess in the garden I try to preserve it so that I can enjoy it through the fall and winter. I particularly love making pickles, even more so…

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Nasturtium Flower Infused Vinegar

Nasturtiums are an easy-to-grow edible flower with an old fashioned feel to them. They have been growing in and around gardens for centuries! If you look in the original Peter Rabbit book by Beatrix Potter (originally written in 1893 and published in 1902) you will see nasturtiums in the beautiful illustrations. Since the nasturtiums I…

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Green Tomato Salsa Verde: Canning Recipe

{This post is sponsored by Ball® Fresh Preserving} If you have a lot of green tomatoes in your garden, this green tomato salsa verde recipe is for you! It has the subtle tang of green tomatoes with a hint of lime. This green salsa is perfect paired with chips, as a taco topper, or on…

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Elderflower Muffins with Honey

In late spring to early summer, elderflowers are in bloom. This time of year seems magical to me, right at the crux of the summer solstice! The creamy blossoms don’t last long, and I always feel the need to do something with them. Elderflowers are both edible and medicinal, so there are many choices on…

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