Curing Garlic If there is one crop I wish I had started growing sooner, it’s garlic. This is only my second year growing it, and I honestly can’t believe how easy it has been. When I first started gardening, garlic seemed intimidating. The idea of planting something in the fall and waiting until summer to harvest it felt like such a long commitment. But after trying it for the first time, I quickly realized I had been overthinking it. Fall of 2024, I planted 75 garlic cloves

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in freshly milled flour among home bakers and health enthusiasts, and for good reason. Milling your own flour at home is super easy and provides many benefits over store-bought alternatives. Our family has been using freshly milled flour for over a year, and although we still use all purpose flour for sourdough bread, we mainly use fresh, whole-wheat flour for our daily baking and cooking. But what exactly does it mean, and h

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