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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!

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

A close-up of fresh snow peas for how to harvest green snap beans piled in a woven basket, with bright green pods and a few stems visible.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Green Snap Beans

hand holding a bunch of asparagus for post teaching how to preserve asparagus.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Asparagus

Bowls filled with ripe apricots are placed on green grass. The apricots have a vibrant orange hue, and the bowls are white with blue rims. The sunlight casts soft shadows on the fruit and grass featuring how to preserve apricots guide.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Apricots

A large assortment of red, yellow, and green apples with leaves floating in water, partially surrounded by a black crate edge.

Preserving Guide

How To Preserve Apples

Caprese Salad on a round plate.

Salads

Caprese Salad

square slices of zucchini cornbread stacked on a round plate.

Cornbread Recipes

Zucchini Corn Bread

Farmhouse egg bake recipe in triangle pie slices on round plate.

Egg Recipes

Farmhouse Egg Bake

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Dessert Recipes

Brown Sugar Substitute

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Hobby Farm

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frozen apricots in a freezer bag

Freezing Foods

How to Freeze Fruit and Vegetables

slices of dried fruit

Preserving Food

How to Dehydrate Fruits and Vegetables

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