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I know I’m not the only gardener who would love to pull fresh herbs and veggies from my raised beds year-round. Unfortunately, my Zone 4 garden is usually under a foot (or more) of snow for several ...

Finding a home for everything, especially in a kitchen, can be tough. If you're blessed with a pantry, you have a whole extra space in which you can store your canned and dried goods as well as fresh ...

Here are a few tips about buying and storing root vegetables: • When shopping, look for root vegetables with firm flesh and smooth skin. Avoid any that have mushy spots. Smaller veggies usually taste ...

As gardens produce the last of their late fall bounty, you may want to think of ways to store some of your root vegetables and squash from your own garden or from your local farmers' market. That way ...

Our root-cellar-in-a-box overflows with potatoes. Without a cellar, what’s an approachable way to store my root crops through winter? Build a root vegetable storage box for a small-scale way to ...

If carrots, beets, and turnips could talk, autumn would be their favorite season. While most plants are winding down for winter, root vegetables are secretly powering up—pulling in nutrients, sugars, ...

Sometimes I wish we could turn the clock back a century on home construction and design. I'm a huge fan of indoor plumbing, and I appreciate electricity beyond a single lightbulb hanging from the ...

Vegetables have a way of wilting, browning, and turning mushy when you’re not looking, which means half your grocery bag ends up in the trash. All that waste costs money, which you can salvage by ...

Did you hear about the tree that deserted the forest at the end of autumn? It was absent without leaf. Fall leaf color is probably autumn’s most recognizable sign, but a close second are bright ...

Home gardening continues to grow in popularity, with Gen Z and Millenials increasing their efforts to adopt gardening as part of their seasonal lifestyle. While it's easy to get excited about ...