Tag: food

Wolfberries or goji berries are considered a superfruit with many health benefits. The berry can be added as an interesting ingredient to soups, stir-fry or sauteed greens....

Summer squash plants not only provide an abundance of yellow squash and zucchini, but can also be the inspiration for a delicacy. Many people aren't aware that the flowers are edible....

Japanese vegetables are fun to grow if you are looking for variety or wish to cook more Japanese dishes at mealtime. A few plants grow well in most climates, have high yields and are staples in Japanese cooking....

Alfalfa sprouts are one of the many kinds of plants you can sprout and eat. They provide a high amount of fiber, vitamin A, B, E and K....

Kale is a hardy growing green from the cabbage family. The plant originated form Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean. Kale can tolerate both mid-summer heat and cold temperatures....

Snow peas are delicious in stir-fry recipes and soup. Snow pea pods are typically harvested before the peas in the pods are allowed to develop....

Watermelons grown in a home garden promise to be a sweet, thirst-quenching treat at harvest time. Typically, watermelons are grown indoors and then transplanted into an outdoor garden area after the last frost date has passed....

This spring we inoculated hardwood logs with shiitake mushroom spawn plugs. We received our first harvest this week and threw them in the smoker with our sirloin steak. De-e-elicious....

Quail eggs are delicious and packed with more protein than chicken eggs. Substitute three quail eggs for one chicken egg in recipes. Raising quail is a great alternative to chickens if you don't have a lot of space. Each egg contains just 14 calories and 1 gram of...

Plan your edible landscaping or garden with our Food Forest Garden Journal now available on Amazon. Funds from the book will help us expand our small edible landscaping space into a permaculture food forest farm....