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5 Unusual Fruits and Vegetables Worth Trying
Summer is the easiest time to stumble onto something you've never cooked with before — a CSA box, a farmer's market table, or even the regular grocery store all tend to have more variety and better prices this time of...
5 Tools That Make City Gardening Easier
You don't need a yard, let alone farmland, to get the real benefits of gardening. A handful of tool categories exist specifically to make growing food and plants practical in an apartment or small urban space. 1. A Compact Urban...
9 Botanical Gardens Worth Visiting This Summer
Whether you're a brand-new gardener or you've had a green thumb for years, watching a professionally designed garden in full bloom is genuinely motivating — and most botanical gardens double as real educational resources, with classes on everything from native...
8 Ways to Lighten Your Camping Load
Good camping food shouldn't mean a week of protein bars. Freeze-dried meals solve that problem directly: the freeze-drying process removes about 98% of a food's moisture, and its weight along with it, while keeping the nutrition, taste, and texture close...
5 Sauces to Take Grilled Vegetables Further
Grilling vegetables is simple, but the sauce is what turns them into something worth repeating. Here's the basic technique, plus five specific sauces to try. The Technique A ridged grill pan made for a barbecue grate makes vegetables easier to...
3 Freeze-Dried Soup Kits for Fast Dinners
A little planning during your growing season pays off later: dice and freeze-dry a soup's worth of vegetables now, and you've got a shelf-stable kit that turns into a real dinner in about 10 minutes — just add water, a...
How to Pickle Fruits and Vegetables at Home
Pickling is one of the simplest ways to extend a fresh harvest: submerge fruit or vegetables in a vinegar, salt, and spice brine, and the vinegar's acidity preserves them for weeks or months instead of days. Most pickled produce stays...
How to Plant a Kitchen Herb Garden
An herb garden is one of the most forgiving places to start if you're new to growing your own food. Herbs grow quickly, tolerate a little neglect, and reward you fast — most are ready to harvest from within weeks...
How to Plant and Grow a Freeze-Dry Garden
A garden planned around freeze-drying looks a little different from a garden planned around fresh eating alone. The goal isn't just "grow vegetables" — it's grow enough of the right things, at the right pace, that you actually have a...