Capricorn Run Farm
 

This recipe is from "Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery" published in Philadelphia in 1817.

If you want to extend your harvesting season, hoop tunnels or row covers. Or, re use.....these are light covers that a school in my area wa

Companion planting Yarrow. Yarrow attracts pollinators such as butterflies, and helps control aphids, which adding nutrients to your soil.

Not the first thing that comes to mind when you think gardens, but perhaps it should be! Brassica oleraca, as it is formally called, is...

April 1st is the start of National Celery Month.....but more exciting is that this is another plant that can go into the ground in early...

Nasturtium Sauces

Time to start planting your garden....and beets are a great place to start!

Little things you probably didn't know about beets..... The ancient Greeks thought beets were an aphrodisiac. They were also thought to...

As previously stated, the Romans felt it was a valuable medical plant, they had some justification-it contains a plant pigment called Querat

Want to confuse things even more? Lovage is a spice (the seed), or an herb (the leaves); and to make things more interesting…Lovage root is

Parsley….as attractive as it is tasty. And a healthy addition to your diet. It is rich in antioxidants and nutrients such as Vitamin A, K,

Charlemagne decreed it should be in every imperial garden, and Queen Victoria carried Lovage candies with her.

Horseradish, when planted with potatoes, increases the disease resistance of the potatoes, which repelling Potato Bugs...so be sure to...

Up here in New England it seems like gardening season is never going to come, but it will. And, this weekend is a special one, because it i