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Pickled Fiddleheads

Pickled Fiddleheads

Yesterday was a day of firsts. It was the first canning of 2011, the first time I pickled fiddleheads and the first time I used my Tattler canning lids.Fiddleheads are baby ferns still in fetal position, or all curled up. They have a very short season. One week...

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Making Affordable Organic Baby Food

Making Affordable Organic Baby Food

Sweetpea is already 7 months old. Her introduction to solid foods has been slow, partly because of her disinterest and partly because of a recent ear infection. But over the last week she's finally started to show interest. So the time has come, once...

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