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Zucchini Noodle Soup

Grandma’s Zucchini Noodle Soup is simple comfort food at its best. This recipe makes four nice servings of soup. Double the recipe to have some soup to stick in the freezer for later. A really nice option for friends and family who stick to a vegetarian diet. Please login to continue reading/viewing this page…

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Zucchini Crostata

A fabulous vegitarian dish that works either as an appetizer, a potluck offering, or a simple dinner with enough for leftovers. The recipe creates a nice quantity of food that freezes well. Please login to continue reading/viewing this page…

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Zucchini Bread

When the garden has been blessed with an abundance of everyone’s favorite squash, it’s time to fire up the oven and bake some loaves of light, spice-infused, easy to make zucchini bread. This quick-prep recipe from our good friend Stephanie S. is filled with homemade goodness. Please login to continue reading/viewing this page…

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Three Sisters

A bit of wisdom of those who came before… Native American tribes employed a companion plant system that involved squash, beans, and corn, known as “the three sisters”. From the the Farmer’s Almanac: By the time European settlers arrived in America in the early 1600s, the Iroquois had been growing the “three sisters” for over …

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Favorite Useful Gardening Tools

Just prior to the Covid-19 shelter-in-place order, Silicon Valley Seeds held its spring seed swap. Yes it was lightly attended, and yes things were already getting a bit squirrelly. Still, folks were treated to three solid gardening presentations, one on attracting hummingbirds to the garden, one on using a soil blocker to plant starts without …

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