Our Book Review of From Seed to Table by the Canning Diva

Diane Devereaux's (aka, the Canning Diva®) latest book, From Seed to Table, is not your average canning book. It's also a tremendous resource for those who value self reliance, sustainability and food security. It’s a handy asset for anyone who wants to grow AND preserve their own garden harvest. You'lI get more than just canning recipes, folks! You'll read about starting a garden and how to harvest from it. There are old-time skills such as rendering lard and seed saving too. I'll give a deep dive review of a book that I believe will be a valuable addition to your library.

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Violet Lemonade recipe for a refreshing Spring-time beverage

Want a laborious task that will totally not be worth it in the end... but looks awfully darn pretty? Great! Let's make some Wild Violet Lemonade. First, get to picking some wild violets. And when I say "some", I mean enough to fill a mason jar (these flowers are tiny, so that's going to be A LOT more than you expect). The real fun begins when you add the lemon juice... but you'll see that for yourself once you conduct this Spring-time science experiment! Get wild violet foraging tips & recipes on our website.

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You can also create some bright and colorful Violet Lemonade Ice Cubes with your newfound beverage!

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Planting a Pollinator Garden for your local bees, butterflies, birds & other pollinators

You know those flower beds that are oh-so perfect and classy and minimalist and if you look at them too hard you might break 'em? Yeah... that junk don't impress butterflies and bees. They want a meadow. They want gobs of regional flowers and in mighty clumps they can find easily. Check out our How to Plant a Pollinator Garden blog-post, and find out how you can put in a sanctuary that will attract all the best local pollinators.

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Our Custom Watercolor Butterfly canning labels are pollinator friendly and make perfect-o gifts for canners and gardeners. Add them to your garden canned goods or herbal remedies.

Bee a friend to our pollinator pals with these Custom Watercolor Wildflower honey labels. These bright and cheery honey jar labels remind us that our bizzy girls need a place to harvest their gold. Add to your honey bottles for gift giving or the farmer's market.

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Trench planting tomatoes for Epic Root Growth & Strong Plants

Oh, what to do with with the too tall & spindly tomato plants that you've put off getting into the ground? Are they a lost cause? Need to head back to the garden-center and get some fresh "perfect" ones? Au contraire. Check out our Trench Planting Tomatoes blog-post, and find out how you can not just salvage your maladroit seedlings but make them truly flourish.

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So, funny story, Japanese tomato rings most likely didn't originate in Japan. About 60 years ago a postal worker from Charleston, South Carolina named Callahan was being interviewed about his tomato growing practices by a reporter named Eddie Jones. As they were talking about the ring method he used for growing plentiful tomatoes, Callahan also spoke about his tours in the Air Force and time he had spent in Japan. Eddie inferred that the rings came from Japanese gardening, but they never did. Eddie's story ran in the paper and was quite popular, so popular in fact, that it ran year after year during gardening season and eventually was picked up by newspapers around the nation. And the rest is history, as they say. Check out our Japanese Tomato Rings blog-post, and you too can perfect the time-honored "Charleston, South Carolina Tomato Rings" technique.

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Free Printable Seed Saver Packets for collecting and storing fruit & vegetable seeds

Seed collecting and storage is a tradition going back to the very beginnings of humanity. Of course you would save the seed of a particularly fruitful or extraordinarily delicious plant so that you could replicate that success again the next season. It's not so much a lost art, but it is definitely an art that is not utilized nearly enough. Our printable seed saver packets will hopefully assist you in recapturing that piece of our past. Because being more self-reliant and food secure is a human trait that never goes out of fashion!

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