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With cooler temps heading our way, fall is the perfect time to wrap up last minute around-the-house duties to get your home in top shape for the winter months. Just a few simple tasks will not only keep your house protected …
Though you can buy canned pumpkin throughout the year, somehow it just doesn’t feel right to me to make a pumpkin dessert until there’s an autumn chill in the air. I often make my own pumpkin purée from homegrown or …
Nothing gets my creative juices flowing like stumbling across a piece of furniture in desperate need of a face-lift, but when I find a truly unique item with a price tag of free, it’s like Santa came early. Rescued from …
Apples and pears are currently in season. While I do not (yet) have these fruit trees on my property, I’ve got many, many farms in my area where I can pick up beautiful, local, specimens of both. After I saw …
Even before I officially took ownership of my current home, it was clear that the master bath was in serious need of a complete overhaul. Not only was the 1960′s motif not quite my cup of tea, but with a …
If you use a lot of garlic in the kitchen, I strongly suggest you try growing your own. Here in the Northeast, October is the perfect time to plant garlic. If you do want to grow your own garlic, you …
The amount of rain that’s fallen from the sky in recent weeks has not been kind to farms and gardens around here. My cucumbers and tomatoes are pretty done for, my carrots are very unhappy, and my potato crop didn’t …
It’s time to switch our mindsets from swimming pools and barbecues to pumpkins and fall foilage. With the front porch welcoming friends and family into our homes, there is no better place to start ushering in the spirit of the …
While I try not to consume too much sugar in my diet, I have recently become enamored with making homemade simple syrups infused with herbs from my garden. A simple syrup is made by heating sugar and water in a …
As a furniture rehab enthusiast, nothing makes me more excited than to hear someone say, “I love to see your furniture before and afters and I can’t wait to take on a do-it-yourself furniture rehab of my own!” At this point in the …
I continue to look for new ways to eat what is growing in my garden. This week, I discovered pickled radishes, and I am so happy that I did. I tweaked this recipe from preserving expert Eugenia Bone to incorporate …
I didn’t get much of a harvest from my blueberry bush this year, so I am planning to put in some additional plants this fall. Fall is a great time to get blueberry plants in the ground in order to …
I enjoyed the heck out of my heirloom tomatoes this summer. I ate them in so many different ways: sliced and sprinkled with salt, piled high on sandwiches, roasted, and cooked into sauces. I even made tomato jam. And then …
Zucchini are so prolific in the garden that when my mom told me she’d put in 4 starter plants, I decided not to plant any. I figured she’d need to share hers, and indeed that’s been the case. She brought …
I’ve had a bumper crop of pickling cucumbers in my garden this year: I believe it’s because we’ve had so much rain. I’ve been making pickles all summer long… I’ve made batches of salty pickles, sweet pickles, and pickles that …
