food prices

There is no denying that I am a big fan of all things tomato, so it should come as no surprise that I love homemade tomato sauces like marinara. While I have been making my own marinara for years, a recent trip to Costco gave me the chance to see just how cost effective my [...]

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Home canning is enjoying a well-deserved resurgence in recent years, and that leaves a lot of people looking for information on how to can and preserve food at home. While there are foods that can be canned using the fairly basic water bath method, when it comes to recipes that contain low acid foods, meat, [...]

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Inspired by a long running desire of mine to know exactly how much food I can produce in a season and how much that food is worth in the marketplace, I started a spreadsheet at the beginning of Spring 2011.  I wanted to have tangible evidence to show to the scientific and figures-minded that gardening [...]

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