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Clothes baskets covering strawberry plants in grow bags

Five cheap & easy ways to protect plants in your garden

The items I will describe below can be useful against a variety of garden dangers. Obviously, nothing is foolproof against…
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How to Make Collards & Corn Meal Dumplings

How to make Collards with Corn Meal Dumplings

Collards with corn meal dumplings is a very traditional dish here in eastern North Carolina. I learned to make it…
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Worm Habitat

Homeschool Project: Make a Red Wiggler Worm habitat

Hands down, my son’s favorite homeschool garden project when he was little was when we decided to make a red…
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Planting carrots is easy with seed tape

How to make seed tape for small seeds

Learning how to make seed tape for small seeds can be a great project for the kids, but it’s a…
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Bean seedling

No seeds? No problem. Food you can grow without buying seeds

You’ve decided you want to start a garden, but you’re wondering what you can grow without buying seeds. You might…
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Harvest basket

Why and how to plan a Survival Garden

Although different people might define survival garden differently, my definition is this: a garden from which basic and substantive foodstuffs…
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Potato with sprout

Plant sprouted potatoes from your kitchen today

You can plant sprouted potatoes right out of your cupboard and by mid-to-late summertime, you’ll have a crop ready to…
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Grow sweet potatoes

Get started growing Sweet Potatoes in your kitchen window!

Did you know you can start to grow sweet potatoes right in your kitchen, and today if you have any…
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Garden Map - Center Bed

Our Victory Garden Map: A diagram of our first three raised beds

We’ll see how this garden map works out. This is what we have planted in our first three raised beds….
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American Seed brand seeds from Dollar General

How to get seeds cheap or free

Yes, you can get seeds cheap or free. Everyone is thinking about starting gardens and becoming more self-sufficient, but how…
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Raised beds marked off for square-foot gardening

Victory Garden, Week 1: Materials & Strategy

We’re midway through our first week with our 2020 Victory Garden. This post will explain what we’ve done so far…
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An ear of corn, photo by Phoenix Han (Unsplash_

Are ‘hybrid’ fruits and vegetables genetically modified (GMOs)?

If you’re planting a garden, you may wonder, “Are hybrid vegetables GMO?” NO, hybrid vegetables are not GMO. In fact,…
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I'm so glad you decided to stop by! I'm Sara. I enjoy all kinds of old-fashioned recipes, as well as canning, sewing, outdoor cooking, and other traditional skills. I hope you will enjoy the content here and be sure to subscribe to my channel on YouTube.

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Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Root Vegetables

Slow Cooker Pot Roast with Root Vegetables

Easy Alfredo Sauce

Quick & Easy Alfredo Sauce (Perfect for fettuccine Alfredo!)

Tamales rojos de puerco

How to Make Tamales: Tamales Rojos de Puerco (Pork tamales in red sauce)

Snow Buttons

Snow Buttons (aka Mexican Wedding Cookies, Snowballs, Christmas Cookies)

Karaage (Japanese style chicken nuggets)

How to Make Karaage (Japanese style chicken nuggets)

Easy Pecan Pie

How to make traditional, southern Pecan Pie from scratch

Quick and Easy Banana Pudding

Quick and Easy Banana Pudding Recipe

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  • How to Make Fluffy Biscuits - An Old-Fashioned Country Recipe
  • Traditional Cranberry Sauce - An old-time favorite for the holidays & gift giving!
  • How to Make Sweet Potato Fluff (My grandmother's recipe!)
  • Quick and Easy Banana Pudding Recipe
  • Quick & Easy Alfredo Sauce (Perfect for fettuccine Alfredo!)

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