Hip Chick Digs

My eyes are still wet with tears and I can’t believe I am making myself write this post.
I had a huge bucket of Roma tomatoes from the Urban Farm I have been planning to can into marinara sauce. I waited a week for them to ripen to the perfect level. You don’t want them overripe, [...]

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So much summer squash… so much zucchini… so many patty pans…
Saturday was a really raining morning, the kind I actually prefer to work outside in. That meant fewer volunteers showed up, but the summer squash waits for no one - it still needed to be picked. If we decided to put it off a few [...]

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Last night I made pear cider for the first time and it was a blast. It seems a little early in the season for pears, but they have started dropping all over town so we figured it was time to kick off cider season. Let me try to reconstruct the process.

My buddy Ethan (hey Ethan!) [...]

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Canning season has begun at my house, although I was trying to hold off until later in the month to really get into things. It dawned on me the other day though when I reached into the cupboard and found one last, lonely jar of jam that berry season would be gone if I waited [...]

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Everything outside is either dead or sleeping (well, except the chickens of course), but we are nowhere near empty here on our little urban homestead. The last year of canning, drying, freezing and cold storage has left us with tons of options still for eating local, organic produce. I wanted to share just a couple [...]

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