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The Pickle Creek Farm Photo Album
Shake, Shake, Shake Your Dressing!
Maybe you eat salad because it’s healthy, because you grow greens in your garden, because you feel like having a light lunch, because it’s 100 degrees out and warm food […]
Random Acts of Kindness & Thinking of You Gifts
Random Acts of Kindness Day caught my fancy because it reminded me of my mother. During the years I was undergoing steroid eye injections, my mother would often take me […]
The General Specifics on Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the Amaryllidaceae family of plants. It is closely related to onions, shallots, leeks, and chives. A native of Central Asia and northeastern Iran, […]
Let’s Chive!
Chives and Garlic Chives are some of the easiest herbs to grow. You can grow them in pots or in the ground, in the sun or in the shade. They […]
Habaneros: One Hot Species!
Let’s delve into some botany. You may have noticed in our photo, our habanero seedlings have wide, round leaves that differ from the more elongated, pointy leaves of bell peppers […]
Mediterranean Salad Plate
Pure, simple flavors sometimes make for the most epic eats and stunning plates. This Mediterranean salad plate embodies the elegant and beautifully simple. And it’s also the kind of dish […]
Olive Oil Roasted Roots
One of the great benefits of having a garden is that it teaches you to eat by the season, which allows you to enjoy each kind of vegeatble fresh off […]
Growing Great Garlic
The first garlic I saw growing in a garden was at an Iowa City Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. We were touring the farm in March, when the transplants were […]
Bouquets of Basil
And now it’s confession time: If I could grow only one herb, just one herb, for the rest of my life, I would grow basil. Basil has been my top pick […]