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No food, other than asparagus, says ‘spring’ to me quite like strawberries. There is nothing like the sight and smell of a basket of beautiful, bright, red, ripe strawberries. I avoid buying them out of season, so when strawberry season comes around, we take full …
One of last summer’s ‘Terra Incognitas’ was making strawberry jam. My strawberry plants had finally hit their stride and I had more strawberries than we could eat – and we can eat a lot of strawberries. I decided to try making jam. I started looking …
One of my ‘big plans’ last summer was making ketchup from my own tomatoes. There was one slight problem though – the lack of cooperation on the part of my tomato plants. We had enough tomatoes for eating, but not the bumper crop that I …
I know it will snow again – in fact the forecast says we’ll be getting some next week. But the days are getting longer, the sun is higher in the sky, and it’s feeling like spring to me. I’ve packed away my sweaters and brought …