Fermented jalapeño honey is a perfect way to spice up your life while incorporating the potential benefits of raw honey and jalapeños! Jalapeños and raw honey are a delicious combo, and now is a great time to access them to their fullest in this deliciously spicy natural ferment. Fermenting Jalapeños in Honey This is a…
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.
How to Oven Roast Hatch Chile Peppers
Learn how to oven roast green chile peppers to throw a whole lot of flavor and a little bit of heat into your meals. Hatch green chile peppers have a short season from late summer to early autumn, and are perfect for preserving. Literally get them while they’re hot and enjoy them all year round!…
Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce: Quick and Easy Recipe for Summer
This roasted cherry tomato sauce is a great way to use up all of those cherry tomatoes in your garden. Simple to make and delicious, this cherry tomato recipe is one to make every summer. Use some now and freeze more for later! How to Use Up Cherry Tomatoes From the Garden If you grow…
Quick Refrigerator Pickled Pepperoncini Peppers
Refrigerator pickles are a quick and delicious way to preserve the summer harvest, but you don’t have to stick to pickled cucumbers – there are many vegetables you can use, like pepperoncini peppers! This recipe for quick refrigerator-pickled pepperoncini peppers will become a new favorite! Pepperoncini Peppers for Pickling When our pepperoncini plant started producing…
How to Make Sauerkraut: Traditionally Fermented Cabbage
Traditionally made from cabbage and a saltwater brine, sauerkraut is fermented for several weeks. Homemade sauerkraut is amazing and doesn’t resemble store bought at all, plus it’s easy and cheap to make and filled with probiotics. Let’s make homemade fermented sauerkraut! What is Sauerkraut? I don’t know about you, but I hated sauerkraut when I…
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,…
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…
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…
Fermented Jalapeño Hot Sauce
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 being overwhelmingly so, a little tangy, and with…
Calendula Iced Tea: Botanical & Refreshing
The beautiful orange color of calendula flowers makes for a lovely and flavorful iced tea. Calendula is a pretty flower that is also edible and a very useful herb. I always have calendula growing in my garden, which I use to make this iced tea and many other recipes! Herbal Uses of Calendula Tea Calendula…
