Author

Sarah Walker Caron

Sarah Walker Caron is the editor of Hello Homestead. A gardener, cooking enthusiast and wannabe self-sufficient homesteader, she lives in central Maine with her two kids. Sarah is also the author of four cookbooks including The Super Easy 5-Ingredient Cookbook and The Easy Appetizer Cookbook. When she's not editing Hello Homestead (or Bangor Metro Magazine), she also writes the popular 14+-year-old food blog, Sarah's Cucina Bella (www.sarahscucinabella.com).

Garden & farm

I thought my second planting of peas failed. I was wrong … maybe.

Sarah Walker Caron Oct 25, 2019 1

A few weeks ago, I declared my second planting of shell peas a failure. And true to form, Mother Nature wasted no time in letting me know how wrong I was. Not a day after publishing the column, I went to my garden to find flowers all…
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What vegetable gardening taught me this year

Sarah Walker Caron Oct 18, 2019 0

We’ve reached that time in the season — the point where we bid goodnight to our garden beds and reflect on the season past. We make mental notes not to repeat the mistakes we made this year. And we begrudgingly pull those plants we…
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Apples are in season and there are so many ways to use them

Sarah Walker Caron Oct 10, 2019 0

Apples, apples everywhere! That’s how I’ve been feeling over the last week. My kids brought home two heavy bags from apple picking with their father. Our backyard apple tree is overflowing. And the farmers market has apples aplenty. …
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I have a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes. Here’s how I’m using them.

Sarah Walker Caron Oct 4, 2019 2

Photo by Sarah Walker Caron Was it only a week ago that my fingers dug into the wet, warm soil, pulling the weeds out by the roots? Was it only a mere seven days since I wondered how many more quarts of tomatoes we’d harvest? It was,…
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These jars aren’t for canning

Sarah Walker Caron Sep 20, 2019 0

Photo by Sarah Walker Caron My mother texted me earlier this week with an urgency: could the flat lids from canning jars be reused? She’s a novice canner who has loved the jams, relishes, sauces and pickled items I’ve canned over the…
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Canning tomatoes like your grandmother did isn’t a good idea

Sarah Walker Caron Sep 13, 2019 0

When the fresh tomatoes from our garden started to pile up in the kitchen recently — brilliant reds and lemony yellows — I set out to make marinara sauce with fresh onions and garlic from the farmers market. I’d freeze some and use the…
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Welcome to Farm to Kitchen Table

Sarah Walker Caron Sep 6, 2019 0

Photo by Gabor Degre It was a small rectangular plot, cut from my lawn and sort-of tilled by hand — if you can consider a little light digging tilling. In there, I planted my first garden, surrounding it with cheap metal garden…
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Homesteading Skills

April is homesteading skills month on Hello Homestead!

Sarah Walker Caron Apr 1, 2019 0

Welcome to Homesteading Skills month on Hello Homestead! This month we’re bringing you a variety of new how-tos and tips so that you can build the skills needed to run a successful homestead and live sustainably. We’ve got an…
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Author Interviews

A sustainable lifestyle has given Christine Liu a new sense of purpose

Sarah Walker Caron Jan 15, 2019 0

Author and blogger Christine Liu has made a personal and professional commitment to maintaining a more environmentally-friendly household. In book Sustainable Home, she shares tips, tricks and how-tos for leading a low-impact life. You…
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How taking things apart led author Mike Warren to a career creating

Sarah Walker Caron Jan 10, 2019 0

Author Mike Warren takes everyday things — from Barbies to PVC pipes — and transforms them with his creative (and often useful) crafts. You might remember him from our recently featured excerpt from his book, Dude Crafts, that showed how…
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