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Bless This Mess › Life on the Farm › Our Family › Our Garden

Hobby Farm Garden Ideas

Need some help or inspiration for your garden? Explore our favorite hobby farm garden ideas—tips and tricks, what to grow, and recipes to make with homegrown fruits and veggies!

Learn how we preserve the garden harvest with dehydrating fruits and vegetables and canning tomatoes, making flavorful butter with fresh herbs, and successfully bringing hummingbirds to the garden for pollinating!

Close-up of okra pods growing on a plant, with a pale yellow okra flower and green leaves. The blue sky and blurred pink flowers create a vibrant backdrop. Learn how to preserve okra at BLESSTHISMESSPLEASE.COM.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Okra

A bunch of fresh leeks with long green leaves and white roots, standing upright in a group. Perfect for anyone wanting to learn how to preserve leeks. A green label at the bottom reads BLESSTHISMESSPLEASE.COM.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Leeks

A wooden spoon holds cut frozen green beans above more frozen beans; below, fresh green beans fill a metal colander, illustrating how to preserve green beans. A website, blessthismessplease.com, is noted at the bottom.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Green Beans

A close-up of ripe purple grapes growing in clusters on a vine with large green leaves in sunlight, perfect for learning how to preserve grapes at their freshest.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Grapes

A close-up of sliced eggplant on a wooden cutting board, with two whole eggplants in the background. The website blessthismessplease.com is printed on the bottom edge, perfect for illustrating how to preserve eggplant.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Eggplant

Three ears of corn, one partially husked, rest on a wooden cutting board. Nearby are salt and pepper shakers, a dish of butter, and a small bowl of oil—perfect for learning how to preserve corn at home.

Preserving Guide

How to Preserve Corn

Sliced cucumbers soaking in water, whole cucumbers, pickling spices, and salt are arranged on a white surface. A green label reads “blessthismessplease.com.” Learn how to preserve cucumber with these simple ingredients.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cucumbers

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Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Collard Greens

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Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cherries

A glass jar of pickled cauliflower with carrots and dill sits above a close-up of a cauliflower head growing in a garden, showing how to preserve cauliflower. The website BLESSTHISMESSPLEASE.COM is at the bottom.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cauliflower

A hand holds freshly picked, dirt-covered carrots; above, glass jars filled with pickled carrot sticks show how to preserve carrots on a kitchen counter. Text at the bottom reads blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Food

How To Preserve Carrots

A whole cantaloupe melon grows on the vine above, while fresh slices of ripe cantaloupe garnished with mint rest on a wooden board below. Find tips on how to preserve cantaloupe at blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cantaloupe

A close-up view of a healthy green cabbage plant growing in a garden, with large, overlapping leaves forming a tight, round head in the center—ideal for those interested in how to preserve cabbage at its freshest.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Cabbage

Brussels sprouts being prepped on a paper towel showing how to preserve brussels sprouts, with some whole and some trimmed or halved, a knife and a white bowl nearby. A green label at the bottom reads blessthismessplease.com.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Brussels Sprouts

A frying pan filled with fresh broccoli florets sits on a wooden surface next to a wooden spoon, with more broccoli for how to preserve broccoli and a website label blessthismessplease.com visible.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Broccoli

Freshly harvested beets with vibrant red-purple bulbs and long striped stems, surrounded by green leaves. The roots are still attached, making them perfect for learning how to preserve beets straight from the garden.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Beets

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