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Re-trying fermentation
I just bought Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz. Katz is an expert on the fermentation of foods and his book was recommended to me ages ago. Fermentation is another method of preserving foods, by...
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Winter fruits & a new food
I’m picking 3 useful winter fruits at the moment. I’ve already written (at length) about persimmons and tamarillo, but the new one for me this year is Cherry (or Strawberry) Guava (Psidium littorale)....
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Spring things
While everyone seems to think it’s officially spring, I have to be different! My season changes go with the solstices and equinoxes, so I don’t consider spring will start until the spring equinox...
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Serendipity
Some weeks ago I bought Sandor Katz’s book Wild Fermentation. I didn’t know it at the time, but he’d just released a bigger, updated version with lots more information on fermented foods. Look what...
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Time for something new
I’ve done wicking boxes. I’ve done chooks. I’ve done swales and hugelkultur. I’ve done drying food. I’ve even done solar. It’s time for something new. I’ve had several major projects on the backburner...
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July update
It wasn’t the sort of month you’d write home about….cold, wet & windy, so I spent much of it hibernating inside by the wood fire. I did manage to get some inside jobs done, the most important being...
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Kimchi
So I made kimchi. It’s loosely based on the method of Sandor Katz in Wild Fermentation: My only regret is that none of the ingredients were home grown. Kimchi Fail. Nonetheless it’s very tasty and...
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