January 24, 2013 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley

Walnut trees are fruitful and beautiful. I love to sit in the shade of one of my walnut trees and look out over the sloping garden. In our new video Tricia shows you how to care for and prune walnut trees.…
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June 28, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley

Celebrate with organic fruit desserts and drinks! Make your Fourth extra fun, or bust out the berries for barbecues this summer. The Star Stack brings fruit fireworks to any meal (makes an extremely festive…
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Submitted by: Stephanie Brown

“Wonderful summer or 4th of July dessert”
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May 29, 2012 - Stephanie from Peaceful Valley

Blueberries are a wonderful fruit, tasty, healthy and the bushes make attractive landscape shrubs. They are easy to grow once you get the soil and water right, but if they have a problem they let you know!…
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May 18, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley

Do you have a small garden? Make it do double-duty as a space for outdoor entertaining and growing edibles. Garden designer Susan Morrison is an expert on small space landscapes and she gave us quick design…
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January 11, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley

WHAT’S A CHILL HOUR? You’re happily choosing your blueberries from our catalog when you suddenly notice extra numbers in the descriptions. Number of chill hours? Isn’t it enough to know…
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October 19, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley

“Eat your yogurt” is now widely recognized as healthy advice. So our our new video about how to make yogurt can not only save you money, but boost your well being. According to the University…
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September 27, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley

Keep your summer harvest to enjoy in the wintertime—without canning. Have you tried drying food? Bet you thought about dried apricots just now. You can dry all sorts of fruits and vegetables, and…
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July 1, 2011 - Stephanie from Peaceful Valley

Last week ended up with a lot of studio work and a highlight of going to a U-Pick blueberry farm. The Hidcote lavender was also in bloom making quite the display. The fruit photos were exhausting, spending…
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June 16, 2011 - Stephanie from Peaceful Valley

Ever have the feeling your fruit trees were going in cycles? Well, it might not be your imagination. Some species of fruit trees can fall into what is called “alternate bearing”, meaning one…
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