Pumpkin carving safety tips
Carving a pumpkin can be a fun, festive, fall family event, but it's important to do so safely. Use these tips to carve your pumpkin safely.
How to harvest and enjoy hazelnuts
Primetime to harvest hazelnuts in the Midwest is from the end of September into October. Learn how to correctly identify, harvest and enjoy them.
How to safely can salsa
Learn how to safely can salsa by using research-tested recipes, following directions and using the right amounts of ingredients to maintain acidity.
Follow food safety with frozen foods
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reminds families to follow food safety practices to prevent foodborne illness when it comes to preparing frozen foods.
How to determine when apples are ready to pick
Learn how to determine when your apples are ripe enough to pick based on variety, color, firmness, seed coats, smell, taste and ease of removal.
Penn State webinar series focuses on home food preservation
Penn State Extension will focus on best practices in food preservation in its webinar series with topics ranging from jams and jellies to pressure canning.
Pumpkin spice season
To pumpkin spice latte or not to pumpkin spice latte — that is the question. Kym Seabolt digs into the nuances of pumpkin spice season.
Cooking and empty nesting
For Kym Seabolt, empty nesting means fewer homecooked meals and fewer trips to the grocery store.
Penn State offering a vegetarian meal cook-along webinar, Sept. 27
Penn State Extension will offer a "Let's Cook at Home: Vegetarian" cook-along webinar Sept. 27, from noon to 1 p.m.
How to find and harvest crabapples
Crabapples are a wild apple variety that is common and widely distributed across the Midwest. Learn how to find and harvest crabapples.
