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So, I seemed to have tons of squash from my garden and I was running out of things to do with them. I love zucchini and patty pan but I can only eat so much before I get sick of them. Well the bright idea came to me to pickle them so I can have yummy pickled squash when there isn't a fresh veggie in sight for months. I cannot take the credit for this brilliant idea I borrowed it when I ate Spacey Tracy's Hudson Valley Mix which includes pickled summer squash…

Krystal's Espresso Brownies A few years ago my espresso brownie recipe were featured in Saveur magazine. Well during the process of putting them in the magazine I think I made the brownies about a…

     I belong to the Rhinebeck Community Gardens and rightfully so every member must put in so many hours a month to maintain the Garden area. Yesterday was my work day and I shoveled mulch in to wheelbarrows for about 2 hours. Needless to say I really hurt my back and spent most of the night laying on a heating pad wishing there was such a thing as a spine transplant.

     But because deep down inside I am a masocist I cannot stop thinking about food and gardening; even while in…

     I live in a apartment where my landlord says growing vegetables is not "pretty enough" to do near the apartment. I was lucky enough this year through some begging and pleading to get a plot in the Rhinebeck Community Garden. I love my garden plot, it requires a lot of work because the land used to be a corn field so there is almost nothing left in the soil. I wanted to add in some worm poop and I started vermicomposting but my poop isn't ready. I went around to some of the local…