Safe Canning Your Garden Bonanza

Safe Canning Your Garden Bonanza

Water Bath Canning vs. Pressure Canning—What’s the Difference and Which Is Best for You?   The early summer of 2025 has been almost ideal so far for home gardeners…plenty of rain mixed with abundant sunshine, all promising a bountiful harvest. There’s little that’s...
Grow a Bumper Crop of Tomatoes This Year

Grow a Bumper Crop of Tomatoes This Year

Tips for a Bountiful Harvest  “Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes  What’s life be without homegrown tomatoes  Only two things that money can’t buy  That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes” -Guy Clark  Singer-songwriter Guy Clark spoke for most of us when he penned...
Honeybees and Honey—How the Magic Happens

Honeybees and Honey—How the Magic Happens

What Caused the Loss of Bees Worldwide? Is the Bee Population Still in Trouble? Over the past quarter of a century, the worldwide bee population has seen a dramatic decline. In the United States over the last 15 years, beekeepers have seen a 30% decrease in the size...
The Many Faces of Pizza

The Many Faces of Pizza

Virtually Endless Variations of the World’s Most Popular Food If there’s any food that you can get just about anywhere on the planet, it’s pizza. Though the actual term “pizza” first appeared in print in 997 CE in southern Italy (a tenant on some property agreed to...