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Now is a Great Time to Test your Hunting Gear

May 14, 2024 | themeateater.com | Tony Peterson |Jordan Tony |Adam Moore

Sure, it’s May, and some states still have open turkey seasons. The thought of deer or elk season is just a faint glimmer on the horizon. While it might seem like you have an endless amount of time until the next big game seasons roll around, you’ll wake up one day in September only to realize that you haven’t tuned your bow, practiced those steep-angled shots, or scouted that new area on your list.
How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borers without Pesticides

Jun 7, 2023 | themeateater.com | Misty Newcomb |Jordan Tony

It’s a common experience for folks trying to grow vegetables without pesticides. You plant squash in the first stretch of warm weather and watch it grow into a beautiful plant. But soon after harvesting the first delicious squash, you come out to your garden and find the plant that was beaming with health a day earlier now limp and dying.
How to Grow Ramps

Jun 5, 2023 | themeateater.com | Jordan Tony |Jenna Rozelle

Ramps, also known as wild leeks, are one of the most coveted edible native plants in the North American forest. They are particularly prized by people in our area of Appalachia, where they have been collected and eaten for generations. They have a delicious mild garlicky flavor, and where you find one you often find about a million others.
How to Incorporate Native Edible Plants in Your Garden

May 23, 2023 | themeateater.com | Jordan Tony |Anna Borgman

By now the benefits of incorporating native plants in your landscaping and vegetable garden are very well documented. Native plants require fewer inputs and less upkeep because they’re adapted to your local environment, they provide habitat for native insects and birds, and in some cases, they are a refuge for plants that are threatened or endangered in the wild.
Get Big Harvests in Small Spaces with Square-Foot Gardening

May 15, 2023 | themeateater.com | Misty Newcomb |Mike Fitzgerald |Jordan Tony

It’s easy to get caught up in thinking that you must have a lot of space to make gardening worthwhile. But even with a small amount of space, you can actually produce quite a bit of produce by using the square-foot garden method. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of a square-foot garden, it’s a method of gardening popularized by author Mel Bartholomew that typically occurs in a small space.
Gardening in Cooler Weather

May 10, 2023 | themeateater.com | Misty Newcomb |Jordan Tony |Mike Fitzgerald |Jenna Rozelle

Once the days grow longer and we start seeing little buds on trees and daffodils popping up around the periphery of the yard, it’s easy to want to get some plants in the dirt. And though we can’t grow a lot of the vegetables that require the mid-summer heat to thrive, there is actually a lot that we can still plant–even if it is before our last frost. There’s a whole group of frost-tolerant plants that will not only survive a frost, they will also thrive in cooler temperatures.
How to Grow Tomatoes

May 8, 2023 | themeateater.com | Jordan Tony |Misty Newcomb

Tomatoes were likely first bred from wild nightshade plants with tiny fruit about 7,000 years ago in Mesoamerica. The original wild fruits descended from a Peruvian and Ecuadorian plant that is similar to modern cherry tomatoes. Although tomatoes had been eaten by people in the Americas for thousands of years when they were first introduced to the rest of the world, many cultures were wary of the new fruits, and some people considered them toxic.