Category Archives: food preservation
Garlic Harvest
Early last November, Kristin and I planted out four rows of garlic. Each row was one hundred feet long. Each clove was six inches apart on eight inch rows. For reference and arithmetic, that works out to about six pounds … Continue reading
Making sauerkraut
Fermentation is something that I only recently began to appreciate and learn about. Since picking up the books Wild Fermentation and Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning, I have been taking on fermentation projects a few times a week. The … Continue reading
Ginger scrap kimchi
In an effort to incorporate more “waste” into my diet, I find myself scrutinizing the scraps, trimmings and ugly produce that I throw in the compost bucket at work. Some of the items are still good on some level, with … Continue reading
Preserving knowledge
I opened my first jar of homemade vinegar dill pickles, one of the quarts I put up a few weeks ago from the Black River Organic Farm cucumbers. The first pickle out of the jar was nice and crisp, if … Continue reading