Seems like we waited forever for great summer produce, and now it’s abundantly here -- too abundantly, if you’re a fruit-tree owner, overly enthusiastic vegetable gardener or incorrigible farmers ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Checking my fridge recently, I noticed three jars of various jams staring back at me. And two more jars in the pantry. I love jam, but I just don’t have “Tea! With jam, and bread” (a la Julie Andrews) ...

Try jam in dressing, on ribs, in a cocktail and more. If you’ve spent any amount of time at local farmers markets or craft fairs, you’ve probably sampled your share of jam. But if you’ve met a jam ...

Laura O’Brien’s annual preparation of beach plum preserves involves a collection so secretive that she uses East End foragers who pick the wild fruit in places their grandparents revealed to them ...