Joyce Amsden


  • How to prevent loss of stored garlic

    How to prevent loss of stored garlic

    When you reach into your paper bag of carefully stored garlic and pull out a bulb to see a sprout emerging from the top… What do you do?

  • The secret to perfect applesauce

    The secret to perfect applesauce

    One of my favorite ways to cook apples is to make applesauce. On its own or with cottage cheese or yogurt, it makes a delicious breakfast, side dish…

  • Gardening: It’s time to plant garlic

    Gardening: It’s time to plant garlic

    Here in Vermont, garlic is best planted in fall because of its need for a dormant period of two months below 40 Fahrenheit degrees.

  • Ask a Master Gardener: Caring for rhubarb in the fall

    Ask a Master Gardener: Caring for rhubarb in the fall

    Whether grown for aesthetics or food, this hardy perennial can be a long-lived addition to the gardening landscape.

  • Ask a master gardener: What to do with all that cabbage?

    Ask a master gardener: What to do with all that cabbage?

    Fermentation has a long tradition as an effective method of food preservation. Eating fermented food provides beneficial bacteria that can help maintain a healthy digestive environment. Many people…

  • Ask a Master Gardener: How to savor fresh berries

    Ask a Master Gardener: How to savor fresh berries

    What’s more delicious than a sun-warmed raspberry plucked from the bush and popped into your mouth? Hmmm. Keep that delicious flavor into the winter by freezing raspberries, adding them…

  • Ask a master gardener: What to do with all that poo?

    Ask a master gardener: What to do with all that poo?

    If you raise chickens, then you know that while they are laying baskets of farm fresh eggs and amusing you with their antics, they are also generating a…