I have been making a ton of tomato sauce lately. I still have salsa from last year, so it has been pretty much tomato sauce this year. But a few days ago, after making some enchiladas, I thought...
By The Peaceful Plate Henry, our adopted dog, will eat anything. I’ve caught him with chunks of lint he’s thieved from the laundry room trash. Rocks and mulch from the back yard are...
by Grab Your Spoon Watching the Great British Bake Off on BBC2 this evening led me to musing on the biscuit. Contestants were challenged to produce their own signature biscuit – with ginger and...
Founded in 1996 by Pat Stewart Hames, Hames & Axle Farm began as an educational service but quickly became addicted to goats. As a way to teach children about dairy, they bought some Nigerian...
Essential Cookbooks by The Accidental Locavore Have you ever thought about the one or two cookbooks you use that are essential? The Accidental Locavore just got through reading Amanda Hesser’s piece...
Pick-A-Pepper is more than a central location for your community to buy locally grown products, it’s also a place where you can sell things you make in your own kitchen. I love to cook, and I have...
It’s taken me a few years to figure out the easiest and quickest way to make good thick tomato sauce. I used to blanch the tomatoes, peel the skin, and take out the seeds, which is a long and...
Harvest Moon Farms began growing lavender in 2000, after our founders,K.C. and Martha, attended a lavender festival in Sequim, WA at Purple Haze Lavender. They were bitten by the lavender bug and...
Fall is a great time to become a vendor on Pick-A-Pepper.com. For many of us there is still plenty to do in the kitchen, garden or out on the farm. But as the days get shorter, the air a little...
Al and Kathy Hildreth of Shamrock’s Buzzy Bee LLC (Four Oaks, NC) started their bee business in April 2008 with just two hives in their backyard. Later that same year when they started to...