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The Joy of Pickling
The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves

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- Experiments with Tibicos (Water Kefir)
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Tag Archives: Home Orchard Society
Gauging the Gages
While picking apples yesterday I noticed that most of the leaves had blown off one of my greengage trees, the one that grew up from the rootstock of a dead nectarine tree. Among all my Prunus trees, this one’s fruits … Continue reading
Posted in Fruits, Wild foods
Tagged cerasifera, gage, greengage, Home Orchard Society, italica, mirabelle, One Green World, plum, prune, Prunus domestica, syriaca
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Sharing Scions at the Fruit Propagation Fair
In the first two hours alone, more than three hundred people filed through the doors of the Main Pavillion of the Clackamas County Fairgrounds yesterday for the Home Orchard Society‘s Fruit Propagation Fair. They came to gather little sticks–that is, … Continue reading

