HDT Team
- Jun 15, 2023
- 3 min
Garden Tips: Recipes with Nettles and Chive Blossoms
“Use what you've got" is a phrase that is a building block for sustainable living. In this post we share two recent examples of seasonal...
Jenny Hill
- Aug 19, 2022
- 3 min
The Garden Files: Recipes for the Abundance of the Season
To me, this is the time of year Minnesota really shines–I call it High Produce Season. Whether you are in our Northern Lakes region (Pine...
Jenny Hill
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
How to Handle an Abundance of Late Spring Produce
When you are awash in asparagus or face a wide span of spinach, you may wonder: are there creative ways to preserve them for later use?...
Jenny Hill
- Mar 11, 2022
- 2 min
Veggie Pizza Even for People Who Don’t Think They Like Veggie Pizza
When is pizza more than just pizza? When it is jam-packed with vegetables! In my family, mushroom and spinach is a popular combination...
Jenny Hill
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
The Joy of Squash
You know you are around a crowd of true vegetable lovers when you can create a stir just by asking about squash. That’s what happened on...
Colin Mclain
- Oct 22, 2021
- 3 min
The Renewed Art of Canning
Some learned an instrument, some started workout routines, and others looked to get their hands dirty by starting their own gardens.
Christopher Glassman
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
Back to Basics Soup Roundup
Back to Basics is going virtual this year. You'll want to check out our event page to make sure you don't miss a thing. A lot of the...
Christopher Glassman
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
Stump the Chef - Canned Dinner?!
Dinner from canned ingredients only? Too easy. You can go to your grocery store and have that for $5. Instead, let's make it interesting.
HDT Team
- Nov 1, 2019
- 3 min
Favorite Fall Recipes
As the fields turn from gold to brown and the leaves shake off their final layer of foliage, now is the time to revisit the recipes that...
HDT Team
- Oct 2, 2019
- 2 min
How to Have Carrots Year Round
If you’ve been keeping up with the HDT harvest, you’ve seen that this year has been particularly good for us. We’ve been inundated with a...
HDT Team
- Feb 22, 2019
- 3 min
Cold Weather Comfort Foods
As a lifelong resident of the Midwest, I’ve come to the realization that there is no escaping winter. It will have it’s way with you....
HDT Team
- Dec 24, 2018
- 3 min
HDT Holiday Traditions
Happy Holidays from the staff of Happy Dancing Turtle. We want to share with you some of our favorite traditions and recipes that we’ve...
HDT Team
- Sep 27, 2018
- 4 min
Harvest Recipes
In Minnesota, we have our four seasons, and at the end of the bright, sunny, summer, leading into crisp, sweater-weather, fall, we are...
HDT Team
- Sep 12, 2018
- 4 min
How to Handle the Harvest
So you’re drowning in vegetables?! It’s that time of year! A few things to keep in mind: a. You likely chose this situation (signing up...