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Dehydrated Orange Slices

Courtney and Gail, friends from Canada, were visiting recently. The holidays are coming so while they were here she sliced and dried a few oranges in our dehydrator. I believe she was interested in their decorative uses – holiday decor, gift tags, potpourri. Although I can appreciate their aesthetics value, my interest in them is purely

The Pomegranate: Beautiful, Stubborn, and Completely Worth Growing

The pomegranate is one of those fruits that looks as though somebody designed it specifically to make ordinary fruit seem inadequate. Open one up and there is no simple interior of pulp and a few seeds. Instead, there are hundreds of little ruby-red arils packed together like somebody’s idea of edible jewelry. It is a