How to Make Quick Refrigerator Dilly Beans
A crisp dilly bean is like a celebration of the summer garden. Once you learn how to make quick refrigerator dilly beans, you’ll be making them all summer long.
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Tennis Ball Heirloom Lettuce
Tennis Ball Lettuce was found in the United States as early as the eighteenth century. It was a favorite of Thomas Jefferson. He grew it in the famed garden at Monticello beginning in 1809. When describing Tennis Ball, he wrote, “it does not require so Read More
French Breakfast Radish
Here at 1840 Farm, we eagerly await radish season each spring. Radishes are the first vegetable crop harvested from our garden and announce the happy arrival of the growing season. They also enable us to enjoy eating a spring menu favorite: Sliced Radish Tartine. French Read More
Black Seeded Simpson Heirloom Lettuce
Black Seeded Simpson Heirloom Lettuce is a staple in our 1840 Farm garden every year. I first tasted Black Seeded Simpson four years ago when I reached down on a sunny day to pull a fresh leaf from the lettuce bed. One bite of a Read More
The Three Sisters Garden Heirloom Seed Collection
Throughout the year, we produce as much food for our family table as possible. Through the years that we have lived here at 1840 Farm, we have covered the calendar year from maple syrup to summer’s garden produce to fall and winter’s fresh eggs from Read More
Sunset Runner Heirloom Bean
The Sunset Runner Bean is beloved for its ability to bring beauty and a nutritious crop to your garden plot. The beautiful salmon pink colored blooms are unique to the sunset variety of runner bean. The vines can grow to be six feet tall and Read More
Stowell’s Evergreen Heirloom Sweet Corn
Biting into a perfectly ripe ear of sweet corn is a summer rite of passage. There’s just something about the sweet, juicy flavor of sweet corn that instantly transports me back to my childhood. When I watch my children enjoying an ear of corn grown Read More
Long Island Cheese Heirloom Squash
There are few images more synonymous with autumn than that of a ribbed, round pumpkin. Each fall, the Long Island Cheese Heirloom Squash grown in our garden move inside the house. They decorate the farmhouse during the season and through our Thanksgiving holiday. Once fall Read More
Isis Candy Cherry Heirloom Tomato
2006 was the first summer we lived at 1840 Farm. That year, we planted a small garden with a handful of heirloom tomato varieties. We were new to heirloom gardening and selected the varieties for that year’s garden in a very non-scientific manner. We simply Read More
Green Zebra Heirloom Tomato
Of all the tomatoes we grow here at 1840 Farm, the Green Zebra is perhaps the most striking. When fully ripe, each tomato is a fabulous bright green color with beautiful bright stripes. In a garden full of red, pink, purple, orange, and yellow, the Read More
1840 Farm is Featured on HGTVGardens
It’s common for me to be sharing photos of 1840 Farm. It’s far less common for HGTV Gardens to contact me and ask if they can use one of those photos to show their readers the best of Fabulous Fall Foliage. I didn’t hesitate to Read More
Creamy Summer Squash
This Creamy Summer Squash is my favorite way to add fresh summer squash to nearly any dinner. It’s simple and tastes great with sandwiches, burgers, or something hot off the grill.