Recipe: Blackberry Jam

Blackberry season comes on strong, and if you don't embrace it, your garden will have an understory of rotten blackberries within a month. We've already frozen 3 pints of berries,…

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05-25-17 Blissful May

In this issue: May in the Garden The Beauty of Blackberries Gardenerd Tip of the Month: Getting Rid of Fungus Gnats Gardenerd Product of the Month: New Custom Biologicals 1.…

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Wordless Wednesday: Spring Cometh

It's transition time as spring nudges gardeners into action. Winter crops are finishing up, making room for warm and hot-weather crops here in Los Angeles. While other parts of the…

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How To Garden While Injured

It happens to everyone at some point, we get injured. Injury brings garden progress to a halt. All those plans for fruit tree pruning, rose pruning, turning compost piles, etc.,…

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Strawberry Cobbler – Gluten-Free Version

Strawberries are in season and the garden is dripping with them. We took the opportunity to use the harvest to make a delicious cobbler that was
easy to assemble in under 10 minutes.

The recipe comes from Vegetarian Times magazine, and use non-hydrogenated vegetable shortening in
order to make it vegan. We used butter instead, since I had it on hand.

Strawberry harvest

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In Season: Blackberry Ice Cream

There they were, just sitting in the refrigerator, waiting for something to happen. Those freshly picked blackberries weren’t going to last
long, and since nothing captures the taste of summer fruits like freezing them into ice cream, we decided to make up a recipe on the spot.

Here begins the lazy-person’s blackberry ice cream recipe. No cooking, no straining, just combine a few ready ingredients and you’re done. To start, gather your supplies:

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