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Festive Autumn ~ 17 Creative Ideas & Recipes for Celebrating the Season
Leaves are tumbling from the trees, fires are being lit for the first time, and hearty food, warm drinks, and cosy nights-in are on our minds. Summer is officially over and the spirit of Autumn can...
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Unexpected Edibles – Grow, Forage, and Cook
This time of year gardeners are thinking about spring planting, sorting through seeds, and salivating at the thought of the first spears of April asparagus, May peas, and June strawberries. Nothing can...
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Edible Flowers – Crystallizing Primroses for a Cakes and Desserts
Though most people think of flowers as ornaments for the home or garden, many of them are in fact edible. Lavender buds can be pressed into cookies, the essence of roses is used to make Turkish...
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Natural Beauty Products using Herbs, Flowers, and Plant Extracts
So many skin caring plants and flowers can be grown by you in your own garden. Calendula for skin healing, rose petals for sensitive toning, and thyme for treating acne just to name a few. In my first...
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Elderflower Cordial Recipe
June signals one major event in my foraging year…Elderflowers! These creamy white umbels of sweet and fragrant flowers grow on Elder trees and later in the year will transform into earthy Elderberries....
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How to Make Fruit, Flower, and Vegetable Wines
I’m very pleased to reintroduce you to a guest blogger who first appeared on Lovely Greens a year ago. Since then, Ben’s piece on making your own Country Wines has proven especially popular and has no...
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Blackcurrant Rum Infusion Recipe
While at the allotment today I couldn’t help noticing that my gardening neighbour had several bushes of blackcurrants just ready for picking. Sadly I don’t have any of my own but feeling inspired, I...
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Handmade Gifts from the Kitchen and Garden
Every kitchen gardener will have at one time or another gifted the products of their harvest to friends and family. A simple bouquet of homegrown flowers, a surplus of organic green beans, or pots of...
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Foraging and Drying Porcini…a wild mushroom also known as the Cep
I was in the shop last night and noticed small sachets of dried Porcini for sale in the produce section. The price made me both shocked and smug – £3 for 40g? After last weekend’s foraging expedition I...
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Hedgerow Jelly Recipe
Autumn is in full swing and with it has come the ripening of berries and fruits in hedgerows, parks, and the fringes of woodland. While it gives me a lot of pleasure to grow produce in the garden...
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Elderberry Syrup Recipe
If you walk along hedgerows and the borders of fields this time of year you’re bound to come across Elderberries. These juicy black berries grow right across the northern hemisphere and have been used...
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Elderberry Jam Recipe
To be honest, I didn’t think I’d be picking Elderberries this year. Mainly because they took just so long to mature and also because I thought that when they did, there would probably only be enough...
View ArticleHow to Bottle Tomatoes
Some time ago I came across an article entitled “The Seven Foods that Experts Won’t Eat” that both confirmed suspicions but opened my eyes to a new food danger: tinned tomatoes. The problem lies with...
View ArticleElderflower & Vanilla Jelly Recipe
Recipe for a sweet soft-set jelly infused with Elderflowers & Vanilla Usually Elderflowers bloom in early to mid-June and they’re a wild food that is relatively easy to spot and forage. This year...
View ArticleDIY Homesteading: Making Your Own Country Wines
Week five of DIY Homesteading features an avid maker and connoisseur of country wines, Ben Hardy of Ben’s Adventures in Wine Making. In this piece he gives information on how you can get started...
View ArticleDill Pickle Recipe
Dill Pickles… they’re evocative of my childhood and weekends at Nana’s house. Each summer my grandmother would carry out the ritual of preserving the garden surplus and of everything she made, pickles...
View ArticleRosemary Herbal Infusion and Unit 1 of the Introductory Herbal Course
Two weeks after beginning the Introductory Herbal Course from the Herbal Academy of New England I’ve passed my first quiz! It’s not that it’s taken me this long to learn the material but because I...
View ArticleWild Flower & Berry Herbal Tea
It’s a rare thing for me to be wowed by a cup of tea. More of a coffee person, I’ll have tea when I’m not feeling well or when I think my caffeine level might be a bit too high. So when Josh kept...
View Article5 Easy ways to preserve fresh produce without canning
Easier ways to preserve food without canning By Megan Cain of the Creative Vegetable Gardener For many of us gardeners, late summer and early fall signals the peak of the harvest season. Although...
View ArticleCanning & Preserving Food for Beginners
Learn to preserve fresh fruit and vegetables in homemade jellies, jams, chutneys, pickles, & more by Debbie Wolfe of the Prudent Garden People have been preserving food for centuries. It was how...
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