Nestled in the lower peninsula of Michigan, growing a garden full of veggies and plenty of flowers to help my family to become healthier has been a passion of mine for years.
Here on the The Cottage Vegetable website, you will find pantry friendly recipes, canning ideas, and gardening tips to help bridge the gap between your garden and your kitchen.
About
My name is Chelsea, and I am a wife and a mom to three children that we currently homeschool. I grow veggies, fruit, medicinal plants, and flowers in my own garden each year. I am passionate about organic gardening, nourishing foods, and natural homemaking without the social media aesthetic being my leading factor! I have worked as a RN for 10 years and through that experience at the bedside, I have been passionate about living a healthy lifestyle through both conventional and holistic pathways.
I am determined to give recipes and tips that are pulled from personal experience. And yes, this website is AI FREE!
We currently live in a beautiful Michigan countryside setting of 3 acres. Along with my family we have a large garden, chickens, ducks, and our dogs named Rex & Starry.
Welcome to The Cottage Vegetable
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Homemade Red Pepper Flakes | Dehydrating Cayenne Peppers | Air Drying
Cayenne peppers are an easy pepper to grow, even for us northern gardeners; they are prolific, grow on the smaller side, and are generally disease and pest free. AND they are incredibly easy to preserve, which lends itself to an easy and inexpensive way to stock up your spice cabinet with homegrown, organic red pepper Read more
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Growing Heirloom Cucumbers | How to Choose Cucumber Seeds for your Vegetable Garden
With well over 100 different varieties of cucumbers around the world, there are plenty of choices for the home gardener to choose from. Cucumbers are often pickled or eaten fresh, and the varieties offered today cater to these practices in the kitchen, with cucumbers that were bred to do well in pickling, have good taste Read more
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Chocolate Blueberry Scones | Using Dehydrated or Freeze Dried Berries
Scones are a simple from scratch dessert to bake at home, and a great way to use up dehydrated (or freeze dried) berries, homemade jams, or other fruit preserves from the summer. Scones are treated as a dessert around here, but they are lower sugar than most other desserts leaving us with less guilt, and Read more
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Growing Berries at Home | Practical Fruit Bushes for Home Gardeners
For most gardeners, berries are an easy perennial to add the gardens; they are prolific, most are disease resistant, some are even thornless now. Anyone with a decent amount of space or a large pot, can slip a berry bush or two into their gardens and reap the benefits of harvesting their own fruit. Plus, Read more
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How to pick Lettuce, Kale, Spinach, Collards Seeds to Grow at Home | Growing Heirloom Vegetables
No matter if your leafy green of choice is kale, chard, or lettuce, growing greens is one of the easiest vegetables to grow in a garden. There are thousands of heirloom greens (50+ year old varieties) that offer several different flavors, colors, nutrient density, with consistently. But since seed companies can offer a lot of Read more
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Garden Veggie Calzone Recipe | Pizza Crust from Scratch using Yeast, included
Calzone with Homemade Pizza Crust Recipe | Garden Veggie This recipe was inspired through the wonderful cookbook Serving Up the Harvest by Andrea Chesman. Her pizza dough recipe is perfection, and when I am taking a sourdough break, it’s the one I use at home. Although, here for the calzone, I find it easier if Read more
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This 20 page, printable PDF file, is a guide to help you plan out your next garden that leaves behind the fluffy, trendy projects social media pushes, and helps nail down what you NEED to do for yourself.
Like I always say, “a frugal garden is one where every pound of produce is used”. And this 4-step guide is here to help you grow a garden where everything is found useful to your home.
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