It’s cucumber season.  But do you know how amazing the cucumber is?  Yes, it’s a delicious little gem we grow in our gardens and find at our local farmer’s market, but there are so many more uses for the cucumber!  Here are some tips and ideas you may not have known about:

 

1.  Cucumbers contain most of the vitamins you need every day, just one cucumber contains Vitamin B1,...

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It's apple season.  It's the time when we all want to go pick a bushel of fresh apples for our families to enjoy.

 Apples are one of my family's fruit of choice and what better time to enjoy apples than in the Fall when you can get fresh local apples at your nearest farmer's market.  Did you realize that the average American eats 17.8 pounds of apples each year???  That's a lot of apples!

There are so many varieties of apples out there.  You are not limited to the Red Delicious and Golden Deli...
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