Easy Brown Butter Tomatoes Recipe

Sliced heirloom tomatoes with salt and pepper and oil.

Brown butter tomatoes is an easy recipe all alone, or served as a side to garlic chicken breast, fried chicken with cream sauce, and more!

Dehydrating Cherry Tomatoes the Easy Way

Sliced dehydrated tomatoes on a cookie sheet.

Dehydrating cherry tomatoes using this recipe with a low-temperature oven or food dehydrator can be a whole lot faster than the long wait for the sun to dry.

Growing Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes

Close up of a green tomato on the vine.

There are two main types of tomato plants: determinate and indeterminate. I often get asked how to tell if a variety is a determinate or an indeterminate tomato, what types of tomatoes are indeterminate, and should you prune them? Let me clear up the confusion around these gardening terms and I’ll share some tomato tips […]

How To Plant Tomatoes the Best Way (Tips for Success)

Large tomato in a woman's hand.

Tomatoes are one of the first vegetables people think of when they decide to try their hand at gardening. Almost everyone loves a good, juicy tomato to add to their sandwich or salad, and no store-bought tomato compares to an organic, vine-ripened one! As I have experimented over the years, I’ve learned a few tricks […]

Charred Okra and Pea Salad Recipe

A large serving bowl with charred okra, tomatoes and field pea salad.

Make this charred okra, cherry tomato and field pea salad with a tangy vinaigrette and wow everyone at your next dinner. This one’s a keeper!

Honor & How it Affects Every Aspect of Our Lives

Two Vego garden beds with a sunflower garden decoration.

Honor, what does it mean in regard to our everyday life? And how does honor look in our gardening and animal husbandry?

Fully Alive

A butterfly on an orange flower.

I feel sometimes like a collector. Waking up early, turning off the alarm before it has a chance
to rip through the still morning, brewing coffee in a dark and sleeping kitchen, I pocket the
treasure of being alive.

Lost

Cherry tomatoes dying on the vine.

the garden last night did not look like one with numbered days, but in truth the numbering could have been done in hours or minutes even.

Grow Your Own Food (Podcast)

A boy holding an armful of produce standing between multiple raised garden beds.

Wanting to grow your own food and feed your family from what you raise and preserve yourself means taking a closer look at your daily choices.

The Simple Step

A woman sitting on a raised garden bed journalling.

Truth is, there is an ever-raging battle in the depths of my heart. It is waged between two minds, one that wants simple and another that demands extraordinary.